On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Martin Dias <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! > > I want to announce the new release version number 1.6 of Fuel, a > binary serialization framework for Pharo that provides extremely fast > deserialization. More information on our home > page<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel>. Again, > I thank ESUG for sponsoring me through the > SummerTalk<http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Promotion/SummerTalk/SummerTalk2011>program. > > You can download this version in Pharo 1.2.1 with: > > Or Pharo 1.1 or 1.1.1 or 1.3 or 1.4 :) > Gofer new > squeaksource: 'Fuel'; > package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel'; > load. > ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.6') load. > > Notice that as always, since Fuel is being developed, this version is NOT compatible with older versions. That means, you cannot materialize with this version a stream which was serialized with an older version. What you have to do is: 1) materialize your graph. 2) update Fuel. 3) serialize again. > This version does not add any new concrete functionality but has two main > achievements: a performance improvement and a design clean up. > > Many changes included in this release are part of a design clean up. They > are a necessary step forward to new functionalities that are coming soon. > They make code more understandable. They enable simpler extension. Happily > they also helped to improve serialization performance by reducing > unnecessary interactions. And it is specially important a bottleneck in > graph analysis stage we have successfully attacked, obtaining great results. > > Details: > - Removed explicit references to cluster classes scattered around the > system. For example, in previous versions Float>>fuelCluster has an explicit > reference to FLFloatCluster. This version replaces this by a double dispatch > interaction. > - Clusters: Better reification. Removed annoying IDs. Removed Singleton > instance creation mechanism, now mappers manage uniqueness in a better way. > - Mappers: They were simplified. New mapping machanism inspired on Chain of > Responsibility pattern. The global objects detection has been optimized > considerably. > - Analyzer: Part of its behavior and state has been moved to a new > abstraction called 'clusterization'. > > Best regards, > MartÃn Dias > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
