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

[Paul Gordon]

Okay, this is a very long thread, so I forgot the original message, 
which indeed has both of these uses (except I don't limit my vision of 
inter-service data passing to well-known entities as Martin gave in his 
example).

Paul Gordon wrote:
> 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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