Re: All's fair (in) love and the sdk list

Personally, I could never get freeze-thaw to work, whereas Storable has
become central to much of my work because it was straightforward and worked
the first time. It is a also a superset of freeze-thaw, iirc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Zander" <[email protected]>
To: "Nathan Torkington" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Graham Barr" <[email protected]>; "Stephen Zander" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: All's fair (in) love and the sdk list


> >>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan Torkington <[email protected]> writes:
>     Nathan> This probably argues against FreezeThaw, unless Stephen's
>     Nathan> extralistual probings turn up evidence to the contrary.
>
> To wit:
>
> >>>>> "Damian" == Damian Conway <[email protected]> writes:
>    > There is some debate within the perl-sdk list about the value of
>    > FreezeThaw when Storable is available, so I'd like someone one
>    > with your knowledge for an unbiased opinion.
>
>     Damian> If I had to choose between them, I'd choose FreezeThaw:
>     Damian> it's encoding scheme is more efficient and it's handling
>     Damian> of blessed data is considerably more sophisticated. But as
>     Damian> I haven't used either extensively in recent times, I can't
>     Damian> speak for their relative speed or reliability.
>
> I'd hope that right about now someone other than Graham or myself
> starts doing some talking.
>
> --
> Stephen
>
> "A duck!"
>