in reply to Re^9: Storable- long integer size
in thread Storable- long integer size

I've got the feeling that the particular type of problem demonstrated by my example should be fixable without impacting significantly on performance.

It would; but to what end?

It would very slightly relax the conditions under which Storable could successfully be used as a file interchange format: if both source and destination are: 64-bit; and little-endian; and use the same floating point format; and are using ASCII or utf-8 (eg. not Win-1252) as the internal format for strings; and ...) then you might get away with using binary Storable files as an interchange format.

But would that slight "improvement" as an interchange format be a good thing?

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