Please note, as promised I've put my spreadsheet that covers the currently used serialisation-esq flags in more detail up on your memcached wiki [1], I hope this helps in any discussions
[1] - http://www.eu.socialtext.net/memcached/index.cgi?cross_platform_serialisation_support - Ciaran On Jan 30, 2008 9:53 AM, Tomash Brechko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:34:44 +0000, Ciaran wrote: > > I understand exactly what you're saying about the data-type in flags > > approach being a corruption of the flag intent, but if there was to be > an > > agreed 'cross-platform serialisation' strategy (such as the first one or > > two bytes of the actual data being the 'serialisation flag' ) > > Note that I'm not against the "SERIALIZED" flag itself, only against > using flags to encode data type. Thus the client can always tell that > the data is serialized by looking into the flags. But it won't tell > the serialization method from that. >
