beginner question: storing and retrieving objects in smalltalk
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Sep 26 21:00:43 UTC 2000
FloriSoftware at aol.com wrote:
> I also noticed many ways of reading those characters back from the stream,
> e.g.
>
> aStream contentsOfEntireFile
>
> this gives me back the string representation and I can scan over it and
> create a new object.
>
> is this the way to do it - or is threre a simpler ( and more general way ) of
> serializing and deserializing objects?
>
ReferenceStream, and SmartRefStream, are probably the way to go. They
handle cycles, for example. SmartRefStream is also.... smart.
Relatively speaking, at least.
If it's a really big object that takes a significant fraction of the
object memory, then image segments are worth looking at.
-Lex
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