Fuel: A Fast General Purpose Object Graph Serializer

Dias, Martín; Martinez Peck, Mariano; Ducasse, Stephane; Arévalo, Gabriela

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique: Article original

DOI :

10.1002/spe.2136

Title :

Fuel: A Fast General Purpose Object Graph Serializer

Author(s) :

Dias, Martín [Auteur]
Universitad de Buenos Aires = University of Buenos Aires [Argentina]
Martinez Peck, Mariano [Auteur correspondant]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Ducasse, Stephane [Auteur]

Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Arévalo, Gabriela [Auteur]
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] [CONICET]

Journal title :

Software: Practice and Experience

Publisher :

Wiley

Publication date :

2012-06-19

ISSN :

0038-0644

English keyword(s) :

Object-Oriented Programming
Serialization
Object Graphs
Pickle Format
Smalltalk

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

English abstract : [en]

Since objects need to be stored and reloaded on different environments, serializing object graphs is a very important activity. There is a plethora of serialization frameworks with different requirements and design trade-offs. ...
Show more >Since objects need to be stored and reloaded on different environments, serializing object graphs is a very important activity. There is a plethora of serialization frameworks with different requirements and design trade-offs. Most of them are based on recursive parsing of the object graphs, an approach which often is too slow. In addition, most of them prioritize a language-agnostic format instead of speed and language-specific object serialization. For the same reason, such serializers usually do not support features like class-shape changes, global references or executing pre and post load actions. Looking for speed, some frameworks are partially implemented at Virtual Machine (VM) level, hampering code portability and making them difficult to understand, maintain and extend. In this paper we present Fuel, a general-purpose object serializer based on these principles: (1) speed, through a compact binary format and a pickling algorithm which invests time in serialization for obtaining the best performance on materialization; (2) good object-oriented design, without special help at VM; (3) serialize any object, thus have a full-featured language-specific format. We implement and validate this approach in Pharo, where we demonstrate that Fuel is faster than other serializers, even those with special VM support. The extensibility of Fuel made possible to successfully serialize various objects: classes in Newspeak, debugger stacks, and full CMS object graphs.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

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