<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am looking to build a system that
runs multiple processes across a LAN of win32 machines. The processes will
be initialised with a large amount of data at startup, followed by many
more smaller chunks of data with the results being returned across the
network. I would like to represent/transfer the data using your pb.Copyable
and/or pb.Cacheable objects. My main question relates to the fact that
pb uses jelly to serialise these objects. Particularly the comments at
the top of the jelly module that emphasise the fact that jelly should have
a lot more optimization in order to gain acceptable large-scale performance
and that, compared to pickle, jelly is a more portable, human readable,
less efficient mechanism.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">So, would you use pb/jelly for transferring
large chunks of data (e.g. ~10s MB) to multiple nodes on a LAN?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If not, could pb be used with, for example,
pickle instead of jelly?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Also, I notice that the pb, jelly and
flavors modules are all classified as semi-stable. Could you give an indication
of what this means in practice?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thank you for your time. I think you
have built a very useful/powerful framework and am looking forward to using
it.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Regards,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Will Lewis</font>
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