On 10/27/10 2:28 AM, Darin Fisher wrote:
I think it's about performance as well as implementor convenience. If the implementor knows up front that the data should be stored as a Blob, then the implementor can write the data to disk without having to waste memory.
I have no problem with hinting to the implementor that the result is expected to be used as a Blob so they can optimistically store it to disk. My problem is with then making it impossible to get it as a string if needed later (which would just involve reading the data from disk into memory).
-Boris
