On Thursday 29 June 2006 02:15 pm, joe kim wrote: > > And as Pete Fein mentioned, xmlrpc serialization isn't always fast, > > especially for large, complex data structures. > > There are always tradeoffs. A binary protocol can be blazing fast, > but a major pain to develop with. Personally, I really like JSON. > Straight up data is much easier to model across languages and > serialize over the wire than function calls.
If you control both the clients & servers, pickle is a fast, reasonably painless option. Embedding in some existing protocol (such as XMLRPC) saves the need for writing network code. -- Peter Fein [EMAIL PROTECTED] 773-575-0694 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~pfein/ irc://irc.freenode.net/#chipy _______________________________________________ pylucene-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/pylucene-dev
