On 14.10.2011 08:15, Martin Dias wrote:
Hi folks!
We have released the new version 1.7 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 or 1.3 with:
Gofer new
squeaksource: 'Fuel';
package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel';
load.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.7') load.
The list of changes includes performance optimizations, design
clean-ups, and new features.
- The FLSerializer and FLMaterializer API has changed. They are no
longer implementing the algorithms but are a kind of Façade.
- Developer guides with examples: Getting Started
<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel/Version1.7/StreamsGuide>
and Customizing the graph
<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel/Version1.7/Hooks>.
- Serialization substitutions: "Store this object instead of me."
- Global sends: "Restore me by sending this selector to this global"
- Versioning the stream: We prefix the stream with a version number
that should match when loading.
- Performance optimizations on instances of:
-- Word-like classes. (We thank a lot to Henrik Sperre Johansen for
your help!)
-- ByteString and Symbol.
-- Date, Time, Duration and DateAndTime.
-- Point and Rectangle.
-- MethodDictionary. Now materialization is 2000x faster, thanks to
its new rehash without become.
- Huge clean-up in Tests package.
Cheers!
Martín Dias
Grats!
Any blog posts with benchmarks comparing different Fuel versions?
Cheers,
Henry
