[Pipet Devel] Re: Ideas for network distributed objects

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Jarl van Katwijk wrote:
> 
> Logical. I never intended to use XML internally. The way I look at XML is using
> it for GUI-Scripts-Core communications, not need for using XML in every phase.

Not at every phase.  But XML is also good for storage, meta-data, and GUI
representations.

> > > Bioinformatic/computational data can be very
> > > large, and it would be bad to have to transfer
> > > big blocks of data when you just need a bit of
> > > it.
> 
> jep, that's why GMS uses raw data 4kb shunks primairy, and offers optional
> machalling to strings\intergers\etc.

Jarl, what do you think about Loci's idea of using XML for GUI
representations?

Cheers.
Jeff
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