Monday, October 13, 2014

NSCoder, NSArchiver, and NSKeyedArchiver

Nat!:

If I chain 40000 Foo objects together, all NSCoders crash on archiving, keyed or unkeyed, because of stack exhaustion. Surprising!

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There are likely very few applications, where it pays off to use NSKeyedArchiver to cache an object graph. It’s neither a compact format, nor a fast coding method. You might be better off just reparsing the source. I parse my templates just about as fast as NSArchiver can unarchive. I can see where the added compression and the lack of need for extra I/O to read included files may give NSArchiver an advantage. NSKeyedArchiver though, just makes everything worse for me.

It looks like FastCoding is subject to the same stack limitation.

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