Le 24 aoû¹ 2006 04:20, James Edward Gray II a ñÄrit : > 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. And Marshal is not guaranteed to produce files compatible between different versions of Ruby, while YAML is. Fred -- Hold me near you So close I sear you Seeing, believing Dreaming, decieving A place between sleep and awake End of innocence, unending masquerade That's where I'll wait for you (Nightwish, Sleepwalker)