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• Commented on Comparison of Perl serialization modules
  I would mention Sereal module here. http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/Sereal/ It's faster than Storable, claims compatibility of format between versions, produces more compact binary output and has nice features like sort_keys http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/Sereal-Encoder-0.37/lib/Sereal/Encoder.pm#sort_keys which allows to obtain identical binary output for logically the same...

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• Steven Haryanto commented on Comparison of Perl serialization modules

  Yup, Sereal looks to be an overall winner. Will be trying it out in future projects. I'm especially annoyed by Storable's continuing lack of Regexp support. It should probably be retired and replaced by Sereal.

  I should also probably add other formats like MessagePack, BSON, etc.

  And I should probably subcategorize according to some criteria, e.g.: binary vs human-readable, cross-language or Perl-specific (supporting arcane Perl features), etc.