Re: Strict 'struct' pattern

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Joshua Haberman<joshua@reverberate.org> wrote:
1 > - instances of Alice have a more efficient representation in memory.

2 > - since "x" and "y" are strongly typed, we can throw an error

3 > - you get a very efficient, backward compatible, language-independent
>  serialization format for free (protocol buffers).

This is a good combination of features, especially if you did need to
interoperate with other languages.  (Protocol buffers are a lot
simpler than all that IDL that gave me a headache last year, and using
XML has always seemed slightly insane)

And, nice for RPC.

Does it require the Google proto compiler?

It is definitely Efficiency Week on the Lua list ;)

steve d.