Congratulations, Martin! This is great news. I am looking forward to using it even tighter in Moose :)
Cheers, Doru On 24 May 2011, at 22:39, Martin Dias wrote: > Hi folks. I am really happy to announce that ESUG is sponsoring me for Fuel > development through the ESUG SummerTalk. I am Martin Dias, a student at > Buenos Aires, Argentina. The idea behind this SummerTalk is to implement > Fuel, a binary, fast and general-purpose object graph serializer in Pharo. It > is based on VisualWorks' Parcels ideas. > > Actually, the project has already started since several months. Tristan > Bourgois and I started with the project while doing an internship with RMoD, > INRIA. Since a couple of months, Mariano Martinez Peck joined the team, and > now he is the official mentor in the SummerTalk. > > ESUG website for SummertTalk: > http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion/SummerTalk/SummerTalk2011 > > The website with all the necessary information is here: > http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel > It even includes slides explaining the algorithm. In addition, a paper is in > progress. > > For the moment, Fuel already provides the following features: > > - Fast pickle format. It is much faster to materialize than to serialize. > - Correctly support class reshape (when the class of serialized objects has > changed). > - Serialize ANY kind of object. For the moment there is no object to our > knowledge that we cannot serialize and materialize. > - Be able to completely serialize classes and traits (not just a global name). > - Support cycles and avoid duplicates in the graph. > - Integration to Moose with an extension to export and import their models. > - Detection of globals: for example if you serialize Transcript, it is not > duplicated and instead managed as a global reference. > - Solve common problems like Set rehash. > - Buffered writing: we use a buffered write stream for the serialization part > (thanks Sven!). > - No need of special support from the VM. > - Try to have a good object oriented design. > - Well tested (about 120 tests, for the moment). > - Large set of benchmarks (even benchmarks for Moose extension). > > And of course, there are a lot features for the future. You can see some of > them in the website and some in the issue tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/fuel/issues/list > > We really appreciate all kind of feedback and comments. If you want to try > it, check in the website how to do it. It is extremely easy. > > Once again, I want to thank a lot to ESUG for sponsoring the project. I plan > to create a "news" section in the website with some RSS. I will keep you > informed. > > Best regards, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > seaside mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside -- www.tudorgirba.com "Being happy is a matter of choice."
