On Aug 23, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Marc Heiler wrote:

> Let me followup:
>
> When to use Marshal, when to use yaml?
> Does one of the two have a big advantage over the other?

Marshal is C pretty fast, but it writes binary files that are not  
human readable.  YAML is plain text, but not as zippy.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II