[ANN] SIXX 0.1h is available
Masashi Umezawa
umejava at mars.dti.ne.jp
Sat Jul 24 09:46:43 UTC 2004
Hello,
SIXX 0.1h is now available for all major Smalltalks - Squeak, VW, and Dolphin XP.
http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~umejava/smalltalk/sixx/index.html
For Squeakers, there is also a SAR version:
http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~umejava/smalltalk/sixx/SIXX.sar
SIXX is a XML serializer/deserializer for Smalltalk. You can exchange various
Smalltalk objects among different images.
New features:
-Fault-tolerant instance creation
- Now SIXX can detect the failure of #new and try to use #basicNew automatically.
- If you catch SixxNewFailed in your client code, you can customize the instance creation of the failed class.
-Instance creation hook
- #sixxInitialize is automatically called after the instance creation.
- In the method, you can initialize some fields that can not be serialized by SIXX (Block, Process, etc).
-Performance tuning
- Tuning for Point, ByteArray. They got almost tripled performance.
- A format change for variable with fixed fields objects (to be more compact).
- A format change for ByteArray (keeping compatibility).
-Refactoring method names to be more consistent.
SIXX is 2 years old now. It has been improved by many users' feedback.
I would like to say thank you to all of the contributors.
Cheers,
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[:masashi | ^umezawa]
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