[pylucene-dev] PyLucene in CherryPy

[Peter Fein]

On Thursday 29 June 2006 02:15 pm, joe kim wrote:
> > And as Pete Fein mentioned, xmlrpc serialization isn't always fast,
> > especially for large, complex data structures.
>
> There are always tradeoffs.  A binary protocol can be blazing fast,
> but a major pain to develop with.  Personally, I really like JSON.
> Straight up data is much easier to model across languages and
> serialize over the wire than function calls.

If you control both the clients & servers, pickle is a fast, reasonably 
painless option.  Embedding in some existing protocol (such as XMLRPC) saves 
the need for writing network code.

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