[MOBY-dev] data by reference - a request for comments

[Paul Gordon]

Perhaps we should make a statement of intendion before hammering out the 
details then ? ;-)

Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:50:30 -0700, Paul Gordon <gordonp at ucalgary.ca> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>>> I am trying to figure out how I would implement the data by 
>>> reference in
>>> order to achieve the main purpose - not no have all data in memory.
>> I think you are coming at this from a different side than most of us: 
>> data-by-reference is primarily to reduce the bandwidth burden by not 
>> requiring results to go back to the client before being sent to 
>> another service.
>
> I don't think that is the PRIMARY reason, necessarily - we also want 
> to get around passing large objects in the SOAP message due to 
> limitations in the (Perl) SOAP libraries, and increasingly in the 
> non-SOAP services where passing large data inside of an XML tag 
> doesn't allow for nice download optimizations/caching, etc.
>
> M
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