On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:19 +0100, Lars Luthman wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 15:56 +0000, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
> > Serialization is necessary because "large" events can potentially refer
> > to some "foreign" objects, like handles to OpenGL textures in video
> > memory and what not :) You cannot assume that all of your "large" event
> > data will be conveniently placed in a single contiguous buffer in RAM,
> > because it might not be the most practical way of dealing with them.
>
> No argument with any of this. Passing around reference counted opaque
> objects can certainly be useful and I can imagine lots of sexy
> applications, I just don't think it needs to be in the event transport
> specification when it works just as well outside it.
++
Extensions should be kept as small and limited in scope as possible.
"Do one thing, and do it well"...
-DR-
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