[Caml-list] Could the Marshal module from the stdlib support marshal to/from a Char Bigarray?

[Francois Berenger <mlists@ligand.eu>]

Dear list,

I posted about this on discuss.ocaml.org, but strangely there is no 
feedback at all.

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/could-the-marshal-module-from-the-stdlib-support-marshal-to-from-a-char-bigarray/11831/1

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That would be a useful feature, since memmapped bigarrays are the de 
facto shm
on Unix-likes for multi process programs.

When marshalling, we will need to be able to pass an offset into the 
bigarray buffer.
The function should return how many bytes were written.
Probably, the current Marshal.to_buffer has the right interface.

I think, the current Marshal.from_bytes does not have the right 
interface, the length
that was read from the (future) bigarray buffer should also be returned.

Thanks,
F.

PS: currently in user-space I can marshal to a string then copy that 
string into the bigarray; but this involves unnecessary data copy and 
shms are meant to be used in a high performance setting…