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On 6 May 2013 09:20, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <maddingue@free.fr> wrote: > Steffen Mueller a écrit : > >> 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. > > Oh, nice to know there was already some ongoing work. > > I already tried a naive approach because I apparently misread sv.h and thought that there were one or two free bits in the SV flags for IV/NV/PV. But experiments proved me wrong. > >> 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. > > > In my previous $jobs, I didn't use serialized data that much. But in my current job, there's a lot of serialized data, both JSON and XML-RPC. I've subclassed the serializers so they use B.pm to detect whether the SV is a IV, NV or PV, which is semantically more correct but still leave some corner cases uncovered. Some of the corner cases? You mean *all* of the corner cases. Doing plain IV/UV/NV/PV is easy, as they are all "single form" types. Its when they get upgraded to a higher svtype due to stringification or numification they lose information required to properly serialize the data. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next