serialization

[xgdgsc]

What is the preffered way of serializing TimeDate to/from disk binary files? Either julia only format or a general format would be OK for me. For now I use string, would there be a format for fast load/saving?

[JeffreySarnoff]

String is best as there is nothing more portable across Julia versions.
I expect the core language will provide something eventually, or a package like BSON.jl will become more generally applicable -- sometime.

[JeffreySarnoff]

Maybe I could provide a special Serialization.serialize and Serialization.deserialize, ultimately though, it may not be much faster than the string form -- and it would be more brittle. I am considering this.

[xgdgsc]

Thanks. String is fine for me. I convert it to tpapp/StrFs.jl: Julia packages for strings with fixed maximum number of bytes. and mmap on disk.