An alternative to binary serialization is the soap serialization usually
used for web services.
this method serialize objects in XML text streams and is thought to be in
order to be multiplatform. The drawback is that the resulting stream is
larger
matteo tesser
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From: "Jonathan Mitchem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Sheppard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Alchemi-users] Re: [Alchemi-developers] Mono and Alchemi
I haven't looked at the code myself, hopefully someone already knows
this off the top of the head.
When and where is binary serialization being used?
And, are there alternatives methods besides binary serialization that
can be used that would be cross-CLR compatible?
And finally, what is the impact of using any of these alternatives
versus the current implementation?
Jonathan Mitchem
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On 1/13/06, John Sheppard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Another thing to consider when looking at the differences in serialization
code between the two implementations is that Mono will also run on
Windows.
So there isn't as much concern of which platform it runs on as much as
there
is concern about which CLR it is run under.
John Sheppard
On 1/13/06, Jonathan Mitchem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Excellent. Assuming everything runs, that is.
>
> Right now, there's an interesting dilemma: most grid toolkits and
> environments are designed to run on various flavors of Unix, whereas
> the majority of systems with untapped potential are running Windows.
> (This is an assumption, not a fact.)
>
> This also means that the majority of grid developers are running Unix
> machines and not Windows, and are not in a position to evaluate and
> contribute to Alchemi, since it does not run on their platform. While
> the adoption of Mono will probably be slow (due to a distrust to use
> anything associated in any way with Microsoft), it will come.
>
> (sidenote: I personally think that real potential of grid computing
> will not be using untapped resources of powerful server systems, but
> rather utilizing the large installed base of less-powerful business
> desktop/laptop systems, which, incidentally, tend to be running
> Windows.)
>
> So yes, that is excellent news.
>
> Jonathan Mitchem
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>
> On 1/13/06, metasharp < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > lately I was checking the current status of Mono. It seems that
> > remoting has been implemented. Maybe Alchemi could be built with mono
> > too in order to work on linux, mac and windows?
> >
> > It would make it possible to have a computers grid running on free
> > operating systems.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > --
> > MetaSharp
>
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