Re: svn commit: r981090 - in /subversion/branches/performance/subversion: include/private/svn_serializer.h libsvn_subr/svn_serializer.c

[Stefan Fuhrmann <st...@alice-dsl.de>]

Blair Zajac wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2010, at 1:28 PM, stefan2@apache.org wrote:
>
>   
>> Author: stefan2
>> Date: Sat Jul 31 20:28:49 2010
>> New Revision: 981090
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=981090&view=rev
>> Log:
>> Introduce a simple serialization framework that simplifies and
>> speeds up serialization of most data structures used by FSFS,
>> for instance.
>>     
>
> Instead of rolling another serialization in svn, what about using protobuf for C?
>
> http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/
>
> I has an Apache 2 license, so will be compatible with us.
>
> Another one to consider is using Thrift, which writes C code:
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/
>
> On advantage to these serialization tools is that they are extensible, so we can always add additional fields to the serialized structs and not break binary compatibility.
>   
I'm happy to replace my code with any other that uses 50 LOC or less.
Do you know one ;) ?

But seriously, I probably shouldn't have mentioned FSFS in the commit
message because it obviously misled people. r981189 should make my
intentions clearer. The whole purpose of this API is to allow for efficient
implementations of svn_cache__dup_func_t, svn_cache__deserialize_func_t
and svn_cache__serialize_func_t.

-- Stefan^2.