How To Do Serialization?

[BarbourSmith]

This is a related question to this question about caching but I didn't want to hijack the conversation there.

I would like to be able to run operations in different workers in parallel, but to be able to pass the replicad geometry back and forth to the workers it needs to be serializable.

Do you have any thoughts on how to best go about doing that? Would using .step representations for geometry work well or is that super inefficient?

[BarbourSmith]

Doing a little bit of digging it seems like the BREP format is probably more appropriate for serialization than using STEP.

I'm curious about how it would work in practice (would it be painfully slow or lead to other issues).

[sgenoud]

Yes, you are right. But in any case I would be a bit afraid of this - tell me what you find out!

[BarbourSmith]

I will give it a go and report back 😁