Ilya Zakharevich on Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:32:59 +0200


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Re: Serialization of PARI data as a way of IPC


On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 06:41:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> PARI itself uses binary serialization for MPI, using the bin_copy/copy_bin
> mechanism.
> 
> The same system could be used for other IPC as long as they can pass
> arbitrary data stream.

This is not feasible when integrating a couple of dozen systems, each
with its own format of MPI.  Only star topology is feasible.

   (Half-a-life ago I hoped that Math::Pari may become the root of
    such a star…)

Yours,
Ilya