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On 05/05/2013 11:45 PM, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: > Now, did I miss something so blindingly obvious that I didn't see why > it cannot work? is it silly? > > Thanks in advance for your comments and critics. > > In the mean time, I'll try to write a proof of concept. I'm not sure that what you want to do is possible, but I'd sure love to see you try since it's been a sore spot wrt. Sereal[1] since the beginning. Before you start prototyping, I would strongly suggest that you look up Chip's emails and branches/patches such as "chip/magicflags7". He'd worked towards the same goal: Being able to tell whatever type a scalar originated as. I even did some CPAN smoking then and there wasn't too much breakage. Chip, what was the ultimate reason why your changes never made it to blead? Best regards, Steffen [1] Sereal could do quite a bit better than it does already. Right now, it defensively uses the biggest type a scalar currently holds. Which is not only space inefficient, but also occasionally wrong. I played with improved heuristics (erring on the side of safety but getting the most effective type where possible). Not only did that melt my brain, I ran out of time and ditched the branch. Patches welcome, for real.Thread Previous | Thread Next