[Bf-committers] Sunday meeting minutes, 25th feb 2007

[Joe Eagar]

Timothy Baldridge wrote:
>
> One thing I will mention, unlike other apps, Blender's load/save
> functions are extremely fast. This means that the whole .blend file
> could be created, and streamed across the network to the other
> clients. Basically we already have a built-in serializer/pickler!
Blender's file code really *is* a serializer, if you think about it.  It 
works  by
creating descriptive data about the core structs (the DNA code) at 
compile time,
and uses that to save/load.  Though it's still not quite automatic, as 
all pointer relinking  is
done manually.

Joe