Generating a Storable file from C (was: Why Perl needs a VM)

Paul Makepeace paulm at paulm.com
Thu Sep 6 15:46:55 BST 2007


On 9/6/07, Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net> wrote:
>
> On 6 Sep 2007, at 14:37, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> >> (a cross platform, cross language, well defined binary serialisation
> >> format)
> >
> > Sounds like ASN.1 with BER (or another of the binary encodings).
> >
> > There's Convert::ASN1 on CPAN.
>
> Ah. Didn't know about that, thanks. It appears to be a bit harder to
> use than YAML, JSON, Storable &c. I'm talking about something that'd
> be semantically close to YAML but binary.



yaml.gz? ;-)


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