dummy_foundation/lib/freezethaw/FreezeThaw.pm
changeset 4 60053dab7e2a
parent 3 8b87ea768cb8
child 5 c34a018f3291
--- a/dummy_foundation/lib/freezethaw/FreezeThaw.pm	Wed Jun 03 18:33:51 2009 +0100
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-=head1 NAME
-
-FreezeThaw - converting Perl structures to strings and back.
-
-=head1 SYNOPSIS
-
-  use FreezeThaw qw(freeze thaw cmpStr safeFreeze cmpStrHard);
-  $string = freeze $data1, $data2, $data3;
-  ...
-  ($olddata1, $olddata2, $olddata3) = thaw $string;
-  if (cmpStr($olddata2,$data2) == 0) {print "OK!"}
-
-=head1 DESCRIPTION
-
-Converts data to/from stringified form, appropriate for
-saving-to/reading-from permanent storage.
-
-Deals with objects, circular lists, repeated appearence of the same
-refence. Does not deal with overloaded I<stringify> operator yet.
-
-=head1 EXPORT
-
-=over 12
-
-=item Default
-
-None.
-
-=item Exportable
-
-C<freeze thaw cmpStr cmpStrHard safeFreeze>.
-
-=back
-
-=head1 User API
-
-=over 12
-
-=item C<cmpStr>
-
-analogue of C<cmp> for data. Takes two arguments and compares them as
-separate entities.
-
-=item C<cmpStrHard>
-
-analogue of C<cmp> for data. Takes two arguments and compares them
-considered as a group.
-
-=item C<freeze>
-
-returns a string that encupsulates its arguments (considered as a
-group). C<thaw>ing this string leads to a fatal error if arguments to
-C<freeze> contained references to C<GLOB>s and C<CODE>s.
-
-=item C<safeFreeze>
-
-returns a string that encupsulates its arguments (considered as a
-group). The result is C<thaw>able in the same process. C<thaw>ing the
-result in a different process should result in a fatal error if
-arguments to C<safeFreeze> contained references to C<GLOB>s and
-C<CODE>s.
-
-=item C<thaw>
-
-takes one string argument and returns an array. The elements of the
-array are "equivalent" to arguments of the C<freeze> command that
-created the string. Can result in a fatal error (see above).
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Developer API
-
-C<FreezeThaw> C<freeze>s and C<thaw>s data blessed in some package by
-calling methods C<Freeze> and C<Thaw> in the package. The fallback
-methods are provided by the C<FreezeThaw> itself. The fallback
-C<Freeze> freezes the "content" of blessed object (from Perl point of
-view). The fallback C<Thaw> blesses the C<thaw>ed data back into the package.
-
-So the package needs to define its own methods only if the fallback
-methods will fail (for example, for a lot of data the "content" of an
-object is an address of some B<C> data). The methods are called like
-
-  $newcooky = $obj->Freeze($cooky);
-  $obj = Package->Thaw($content,$cooky);
-
-To save and restore the data the following method are applicable:
-
-  $cooky->FreezeScalar($data,$ignorePackage,$noduplicate);
-
-during Freeze()ing, and
-
-  $data = $cooky->ThawScalar;
-
-Two optional arguments $ignorePackage and $noduplicate regulate
-whether the freezing should not call the methods even if $data is a
-reference to a blessed object, and whether the data should not be
-marked as seen already even if it was seen before. The default methods
-
-  sub UNIVERSAL::Freeze {
-    my ($obj, $cooky) = (shift, shift);
-    $cooky->FreezeScalar($obj,1,1);
-  }
-
-  sub UNIVERSAL::Thaw {
-    my ($package, $cooky) = (shift, shift);
-    my $obj = $cooky->ThawScalar;
-    bless $obj, $package;
-  }
-
-call the C<FreezeScalar> method of the $cooky since the freezing
-engine will see the data the second time during this call. Indeed, it
-is the freezing engine who calls UNIVERSAL::Freeze(), and it calls it
-because it needs to freeze $obj. The above call to
-$cooky->FreezeScalar() handles the same data back to engine, but
-because flags are different, the code does not cycle.
-
-Freezing and thawing $cooky also allows the following additional methods:
-
-  $cooky->isSafe;
-
-to find out whether the current freeze was initiated by C<freeze> or
-C<safeFreeze> command. Analogous method for thaw $cooky returns
-whether the current thaw operation is considered safe (i.e., either
-does not contain cached elsewhere data, or comes from the same
-application). You can use
-
-  $cooky->makeSafe;
-
-to prohibit cached data for the duration of the rest of freezing or
-thawing of current object.
-
-Two methods
-
-  $value = $cooky->repeatedOK;
-  $cooky->noRepeated;		# Now repeated are prohibited
-
-allow to find out/change the current setting for allowing repeated
-references.
-
-If you want to flush the cache of saved objects you can use
-
-  FreezeThaw->flushCache;
-
-this can invalidate some frozen string, so that thawing them will
-result in fatal error.
-
-=head2 Instantiating
-
-Sometimes, when an object from a package is recreated in presense of
-repeated references, it is not safe to recreate the internal structure
-of an object in one step. In such a situation recreation of an object
-is carried out in two steps: in the first the object is C<allocate>d,
-in the second it is C<instantiate>d.
-
-The restriction is that during the I<allocation> step you cannot use any
-reference to any Perl object that can be referenced from any other
-place. This restriction is applied since that object may not exist yet.
-
-Correspondingly, during I<instantiation> step the previosly I<allocated>
-object should be C<filled>, i.e., it can be changed in any way such
-that the references to this object remain valid.
-
-The methods are called like this:
-
-  $pre_object_ref = Package->Allocate($pre_pre_object_ref);
-	# Returns reference
-  Package->Instantiate($pre_object_ref,$cooky);
-	# Converts into reference to blessed object
-
-The reverse operations are
-
-  $object_ref->FreezeEmpty($cooky);
-  $object_ref->FreezeInstance($cooky);
-
-during these calls object can C<freezeScalar> some information (in a
-usual way) that will be used during C<Allocate> and C<Instantiate>
-calls (via C<thawScalar>). Note that the return value of
-C<FreezeEmpty> is cached during the phase of creation of uninialized
-objects. This B<must> be used like this: the return value is the
-reference to the created object, so it is not destructed until other
-objects are created, thus the frozen values of the different objects
-will not share the same references. Example of bad result:
-
-  $o1->FreezeEmpty($cooky)
-
-freezes C<{}>, and C<$o2-E<gt>FreezeEmpty($cooky)> makes the same. Now
-nobody guaranties that that these two copies of C<{}> are different,
-unless a reference to the first one is preserved during the call to
-C<$o2-E<gt>FreezeEmpty($cooky)>. If C<$o1-E<gt>FreezeEmpty($cooky)>
-returns the value of C<{}> it uses, it will be preserved by the
-engine.
-
-The helper function C<FreezeThaw::copyContents> is provided for
-simplification of instantiation. The syntax is
-
-  FreezeThaw::copyContents $to, $from;
-
-The function copies contents the object $from point to into what the
-object $to points to (including package for blessed references). Both
-arguments should be references.
-
-The default methods are provided. They do the following:
-
-=over 12
-
-=item C<FreezeEmpty>
-
-Freezes an I<empty> object of underlying type.
-
-=item C<FreezeInstance>
-
-Calls C<Freeze>.
-
-=item C<Allocate>
-
-Thaws what was frozen by C<FreezeEmpty>.
-
-=item C<Instantiate>
-
-Thaws what was frozen by C<FreezeInstance>, uses C<copyContents> to
-transfer this to the $pre_object.
-
-=back
-
-=head1 BUGS and LIMITATIONS
-
-A lot of objects are blessed in some obscure packages by XSUB
-typemaps. It is not clear how to (automatically) prevent the
-C<UNIVERSAL> methods to be called for objects in these packages.
-
-The objects which can survive freeze()/thaw() cycle must also survive a
-change of a "member" to an equal member.  Say, after
-
-  $a = [a => 3];
-  $a->{b} = \ $a->{a};
-
-$a satisfies
-
-  $a->{b} == \ $a->{a}
-
-This property will be broken by freeze()/thaw(), but it is also broken by
-
-  $a->{a} = delete $a->{a};
-
-=cut
-
-require 5.002;			# defined ref stuff...
-
-# Different line noise chars:
-#
-# $567|			next 567 chars form a scalar
-#
-# @34|			next 34 scalars form an array
-#
-# %34|			next 34 scalars form a hash
-#
-# ?			next scalar is a safe-stamp at beginning
-#
-# ?			next scalar is a stringified data
-#
-# !  repeated array follows (after a scalar denoting array $#),
-# (possibly?) followed by instantiation array. At beginning
-#
-# <45|			ordinal of element in repeated array
-#
-# *			stringified glob follows
-#
-# &			stringified coderef follows
-#
-# \\			stringified defererenced data follows
-#
-# /			stringified REx follows
-#
-# >			stringified package name follows, then frozen data
-#
-# {			stringified package name follows, then allocation data
-#
-# }			stringified package name follows, then instantiation data
-#
-# _			frozen form of undef
-
-
-package FreezeThaw;
-
-use Exporter;
-
-@ISA = qw(Exporter);
-$VERSION = '0.43';
-@EXPORT_OK = qw(freeze thaw cmpStr cmpStrHard safeFreeze);
-
-use strict;
-use Carp;
-
-my $lock = (reverse time) ^ $$ ^ \&freezeString; # To distingush processes
-
-use vars qw( @multiple
-	     %seen_packages
-	     $seen_packages
-	     %seen_packages
-	     %count
-	     %address
-	     $string
-	     $unsafe
-	     $noCache
-	     $cooky
-	     $secondpass
-	   ),			# Localized in freeze()
-	qw( $norepeated ),	# Localized in freezeScalar()
-	qw( $uninitOK ),	# Localized in thawScalar()
-	qw( @uninit ),		# Localized in thaw()
-	qw($safe);		# Localized in safeFreeze()
-my (%saved);
-
-my %Empty = ( ARRAY   => sub {[]}, HASH => sub {{}},
-	      SCALAR  => sub {my $undef; \$undef},
-	      REF     => sub {my $undef; \$undef},
-	      CODE    => 1,		# 1 means atomic
-	      GLOB    => 1,
-	      Regexp  => 0,
-	 );
-
-
-sub flushCache {$lock ^= rand; undef %saved;}
-
-sub getref ($) {
-  my $ref = ref $_[0];
-  return $ref if not $ref or defined $Empty{$ref}; # Optimization _and_ Regexp
-  my $str;
-  if (defined &overload::StrVal) {
-    $str = overload::StrVal($_[0]);
-  } else {
-    $str = "$_[0]";
-  }
-  $ref = $1 if $str =~ /=(\w+)/;
-  $ref;
-}
-
-sub freezeString {$string .= "\$" . length($_[0]) . '|' . $_[0]}
-
-sub freezeNumber {$string .= $_[0] . '|'}
-
-sub freezeREx {$string .= '/' . length($_[0]) . '|' . $_[0]}
-
-sub thawString {	# Returns list: a string and offset of rest
-  substr($string, $_[0]) =~ /^\$(\d+)\|/
-    or confess "Wrong format of frozen string: " . substr($string, $_[0]);
-  length($string) - $_[0] > length($1) + 1 + $1
-    or confess "Frozen string too short: `" .
-      substr($string, $_[0]) . "', expect " . (length($1) + 2 + $1);
-  (substr($string, $_[0] + length($1) + 2, $1), $_[0] + length($1) + 2 + $1);
-}
-
-sub thawNumber {	# Returns list: a number and offset of rest
-  substr($string, $_[0]) =~ /^(\d+)\|/
-    or confess "Wrong format of frozen string: " . substr($string, $_[0]);
-  ($1, $_[0] + length($1) + 1);
-}
-
-sub _2rex ($);
-if (eval '"Regexp" eq ref qr/1/') {
-  eval 'sub _2rex ($) {my $r = shift; qr/$r/} 1' or die;
-} else {
-  eval 'sub _2rex ($) { shift } 1' or die;
-}
-
-sub thawREx {	# Returns list: a REx and offset of rest
-  substr($string, $_[0]) =~ m,^/(\d+)\|,
-    or confess "Wrong format of frozen REx: " . substr($string, $_[0]);
-  length($string) - $_[0] > length($1) + 1 + $1
-    or confess "Frozen string too short: `" .
-      substr($string, $_[0]) . "', expect " . (length($1) + 2 + $1);
-  (_2rex substr($string, $_[0] + length($1) + 2, $1),
-   $_[0] + length($1) + 2 + $1);
-}
-
-sub freezeArray {
-  $string .= '@' . @{$_[0]} . '|';
-  for (@{$_[0]}) {
-    freezeScalar($_);
-  }
-}
-
-sub thawArray {
-  substr($string, $_[0]) =~ /^[\@%](\d+)\|/ # % To make it possible thaw hashes
-    or confess "Wrong format of frozen array: \n$_[0]";
-  my $count = $1;
-  my $off = $_[0] + 2 + length $count;
-  my (@res, $res);
-  while ($count and length $string > $off) {
-    ($res,$off) = thawScalar($off);
-    push(@res,$res);
-    --$count;
-  }
-  confess "Wrong length of data in thawing Array: $count left" if $count;
-  (\@res, $off);
-}
-
-sub freezeHash {
-  my @arr = sort keys %{$_[0]};
-  $string .= '%' . (2*@arr) . '|';
-  for (@arr, @{$_[0]}{@arr}) {
-    freezeScalar($_);
-  }
-}
-
-sub thawHash {
-  my ($arr, $rest) = &thawArray;
-  my %hash;
-  my $l = @$arr/2;
-  foreach (0 .. $l - 1) {
-    $hash{$arr->[$_]} = $arr->[$l + $_];
-  }
-  (\%hash,$rest);
-}
-
-# Second optional argument: ignore the package
-# Third optional one: do not check for duplicates on outer level
-
-sub freezeScalar {
-  $string .= '_', return unless defined $_[0];
-  return &freezeString unless ref $_[0];
-  my $ref = ref $_[0];
-  my $str;
-  if ($_[1] and $ref) {			# Similar to getref()
-    if (defined &overload::StrVal) {
-      $str = overload::StrVal($_[0]);
-    } else {
-      $str = "$_[0]";
-    }
-    $ref = $1 if $str =~ /=(\w+)/;
-  } else {
-    $str = "$_[0]";
-  }
-  # Die if a) repeated prohibited, b) met, c) not explicitely requested to ingore.
-  confess "Repeated reference met when prohibited"
-    if $norepeated && !$_[2] && defined $count{$str};
-  if ($secondpass and !$_[2]) {
-    $string .= "<$address{$str}|", return
-      if defined $count{$str} and $count{$str} > 1;
-  } elsif (!$_[2]) {
-    # $count{$str} is defined if we have seen it on this pass.
-    $address{$str} = @multiple, push(@multiple, $_[0])
-      if defined $count{$str} and not exists $address{$str};
-    # This is for debugging and shortening thrown-away output (also
-    # internal data in arrays and hashes is not duplicated).
-    $string .= "<$address{$str}|", ++$count{$str}, return
-      if defined $count{$str};
-    ++$count{$str};
-  }
-  return &freezeArray if $ref eq 'ARRAY';
-  return &freezeHash if $ref eq 'HASH';
-  return &freezeREx if $ref eq 'Regexp' and not defined ${$_[0]};
-  $string .= "*", return &freezeString
-    if $ref eq 'GLOB' and !$safe;
-  $string .= "&", return &freezeString
-    if $ref eq 'CODE' and !$safe;
-  $string .= '\\', return &freezeScalar( $ {shift()} )
-    if $ref eq 'REF' or $ref eq 'SCALAR';
-  if ($noCache and (($ref eq 'CODE') or $ref eq 'GLOB')) {
-    confess "CODE and GLOB references prohibited now";
-  }
-  if ($safe and (($ref eq 'CODE') or $ref eq 'GLOB')) {
-    $unsafe = 1;
-    $saved{$str} = $_[0] unless defined $saved{$str};
-    $string .= "?";
-    return &freezeString;
-  }
-  $string .= '>';
-  local $norepeated = $norepeated;
-  local $noCache = $noCache;
-  freezePackage(ref $_[0]);
-  $_[0]->Freeze($cooky);
-}
-
-sub freezePackage {
-  my $packageid = $seen_packages{$_[0]};
-  if (defined $packageid) {
-    $string .= ')';
-    &freezeNumber( $packageid );
-  } else {
-    $string .= '>';
-    &freezeNumber( $seen_packages );
-    &freezeScalar( $_[0] );
-    $seen_packages{ $_[0] } = $seen_packages++;
-  }
-}
-
-sub thawPackage {		# First argument: offset
-  my $key = substr($string,$_[0],1);
-  my ($get, $rest, $id);
-  ($id, $rest) = &thawNumber($_[0] + 1);
-  if ($key eq ')') {
-    $get = $seen_packages{$id};
-  } else {
-    ($get, $rest) = &thawString($rest);
-    $seen_packages{$id} = $get;
-  }
-  ($get, $rest);
-}
-
-# First argument: offset; Optional other: index in the @uninit array
-
-sub thawScalar {
-  my $key = substr($string,$_[0],1);
-  if ($key eq "\$") {&thawString}
-  elsif ($key eq '@') {&thawArray}
-  elsif ($key eq '%') {&thawHash}
-  elsif ($key eq '/') {&thawREx}
-  elsif ($key eq '\\') {
-    my ($out,$rest) = &thawScalar( $_[0]+1 ) ;
-    (\$out,$rest);
-  }
-  elsif ($key eq '_') { (undef, $_[0]+1) }
-  elsif ($key eq '&') {confess "Do not know how to thaw CODE"}
-  elsif ($key eq '*') {confess "Do not know how to thaw GLOB"}
-  elsif ($key eq '?') {
-    my ($address,$rest) = &thawScalar( $_[0]+1 ) ;
-    confess "The saved data accessed in unprotected thaw" unless $unsafe;
-    confess "The saved data disappeared somewhere"
-      unless defined $saved{$address};
-    ($saved{$address},$rest);
-  } elsif ($key eq '<') {
-    confess "Repeated data prohibited at this moment" unless $uninitOK;
-    my ($off,$end) = &thawNumber ($_[0]+1);
-    ($uninit[$off],$end);
-  } elsif ($key eq '>' or $key eq '{' or $key eq '}') {
-    my ($package,$rest) = &thawPackage( $_[0]+1 );
-    my $cooky = bless \$rest, 'FreezeThaw::TCooky';
-    local $uninitOK = $uninitOK;
-    local $unsafe = $unsafe;
-    if ($key eq '{') {
-      my $res = $package->Allocate($cooky);
-      ($res, $rest);
-    } elsif ($key eq '}') {
-      warn "Here it is undef!" unless defined $_[1];
-      $package->Instantiate($uninit[$_[1]],$cooky);
-      (undef, $rest);
-    } else {
-      ($package->Thaw($cooky),$rest);
-    }
-  } else {
-    confess "Do not know how to thaw data with code `$key'";
-  }
-}
-
-sub freezeEmpty {		# Takes a type, freezes ref to empty object
-  my $e = $Empty{ref $_[0]};
-  if (ref $e) {
-    my $cache = &$e;
-    freezeScalar $cache;
-    $cache;
-  } elsif ($e) {
-    my $cache = shift;
-    freezeScalar($cache,1,1);	# Atomic
-    $cache;
-  } else {
-    $string .= "{";
-    freezePackage ref $_[0];
-    $_[0]->FreezeEmpty($cooky);
-  }
-}
-
-sub freeze {
-  local @multiple;
-  local %seen_packages;
-  local $seen_packages = 0;
-  local %seen_packages;
-#  local @seentypes;
-  local %count;
-  local %address;
-  local $string = 'FrT;';
-  local $unsafe;
-  local $noCache;
-  local $cooky = bless \$cooky, 'FreezeThaw::FCooky'; # Just something fake
-  local $secondpass;
-  freezeScalar(\@_);
-  if (@multiple) {
-    # Now repeated structures are enumerated with order of *second* time
-    # they appear in the what we freeze.
-    # What we want is to have them enumerated with respect to the first time
-####    $string = '';		# Start again
-####    @multiple = ();
-####    %address = ();
-####    for (keys %count) {
-####      $count{$_} = undef if $count{$_} <= 1; # As at start
-####      $count{$_} = 0 if $count{$_}; # As at start
-####    }
-####    $seen_packages = 0;
-####    %seen_packages = ();
-####    freezeScalar(\@_);
-    # Now repeated structures are enumerated with order of first time
-    # they appear in the what we freeze
-####    my $oldstring = substr $string, 4;
-    $string = 'FrT;!'; # Start again
-    $seen_packages = 0;
-    %seen_packages = ();	# XXXX We reshuffle parts of the
-                                # string, so the order of packages may
-                                # be wrong...
-    freezeNumber($#multiple);
-    {
-      my @cache;		# Force different values for different
-                                # empty objects.
-      foreach (@multiple) {
-	push @cache, freezeEmpty $_;
-      }
-    }
-#    for (keys %count) {
-#      $count{$_} = undef
-#	if !(defined $count{$_}) or $count{$_} <= 1; # As at start
-#    }
-    # $string .= '@' . @multiple . '|';
-    $secondpass = 1;
-    for (@multiple) {
-      freezeScalar($_,0,1,1), next if $Empty{ref $_};
-      $string .= "}";
-      freezePackage ref $_;
-      $_->FreezeInstance($cooky);
-    }
-####    $string .= $oldstring;
-    freezeScalar(\@_);
-  }
-  return "FrT;?\$" . length($lock) . "|" . $lock . substr $string, 4
-    if $unsafe;
-  $string;
-}
-
-sub safeFreeze {
-  local $safe = 1;
-  &freeze;
-}
-
-sub copyContents {  # Given two references, copies contents of the
-                    # second one to the first one, provided they have
-		    # the same basic type. The package is copied too.
-  my($first,$second) = @_;
-  my $ref = getref $second;
-  if ($ref eq 'SCALAR' or $ref eq 'REF') {
-    $$first = $$second;
-  } elsif ($ref eq 'ARRAY') {
-    @$first = @$second;
-  } elsif ($ref eq 'HASH') {
-    %$first = %$second;
-  } else {
-    croak "Don't know how to copyContents of type `$ref'";
-  }
-  if (ref $second ne ref $first) { # Rebless
-    # SvAMAGIC() is a property of a reference, not of a referent!
-    # Thus we cannot use $first here if $second was overloaded...
-    bless $_[0], ref $second;
-  }
-  $first;
-}
-
-sub thaw {
-  confess "thaw requires one argument" unless @_ ==1;
-  local $string = shift;
-  local %seen_packages;
-  my $initoff = 0;
-  #print STDERR "Thawing `$string'", substr ($string, 0, 4), "\n";
-  if (substr($string, 0, 4) ne 'FrT;') {
-    warn "Signature not present, continuing anyway" if $^W;
-  } else {
-    $initoff = 4;
-  }
-  local $unsafe = $initoff + (substr($string, $initoff, 1) eq "?" ? 1 : 0);
-  if ($unsafe != $initoff) {
-    my $key;
-    ($key,$unsafe) = thawScalar($unsafe);
-    confess "The lock in frozen data does not match the key"
-      unless $key eq $lock;
-  }
-  local @multiple;
-  local $uninitOK = 1;		# The methods can change it.
-  my $repeated = substr($string,$unsafe,1) eq '!' ? 1 : 0;
-  my ($res, $off);
-  if ($repeated) {
-    ($res, $off) = thawNumber($repeated + $unsafe);
-  } else {
-    ($res, $off) = thawScalar($repeated + $unsafe);
-  }
-  my $cooky = bless \$off, 'FreezeThaw::TCooky';
-  if ($repeated) {
-    local @uninit;
-    my $lst = $res;
-    foreach (0..$lst) {
-      ($res, $off) = thawScalar($off, $_);
-      push(@uninit, $res);
-    }
-    my @init;
-    foreach (0..$lst) {
-      ($res, $off) = thawScalar($off, $_);
-      push(@init, $res);
-    }
-    #($init, $off)  = thawScalar($off);
-    #print "Instantiating...\n";
-    #my $ref;
-    for (0..$#uninit) {
-      copyContents $uninit[$_], $init[$_] if ref $init[$_];
-    }
-    ($res, $off) = thawScalar($off);
-  }
-  croak "Extra elements in frozen structure: `" . substr($string,$off) . "'"
-    if $off != length $string;
-  return @$res;
-}
-
-sub cmpStr {
-  confess "Compare requires two arguments" unless @_ == 2;
-  freeze(shift) cmp freeze(shift);
-}
-
-sub cmpStrHard {
-  confess "Compare requires two arguments" unless @_ == 2;
-  local @multiple;
-#  local @seentypes;
-  local %count;
-  local %address;
-  local $string = 'FrT;';
-  local $unsafe;
-  local $noCache;
-  local $cooky = bless \$cooky, 'FreezeThaw::FCooky'; # Just something fake
-  freezeScalar($_[0]);
-  my %cnt1 = %count;
-  freezeScalar($_[1]);
-  my %cnt2 = %count;
-  %count = ();
-  # Now all the caches are filled, delete the entries for guys which
-  # are in one argument only.
-  my ($elt, $val);
-  while (($elt, $val) = each %cnt1) {
-    $count{$elt}++ if $cnt2{$elt} > $cnt1{$elt};
-  }
-  $string = '';
-  freezeScalar($_[0]);
-  my $str1 = $string;
-  $string = '';
-  freezeScalar($_[1]);
-  $str1 cmp $string;
-}
-
-#   local $string = freeze(shift,shift);
-#   local $uninitOK = 1;
-#   #print "$string\n";
-#   my $off = 7;			# Hardwired offset after @2|
-#   if (substr($string,4,1) eq '!') {
-#     $off = 5;			# Hardwired offset after !
-#     my ($uninit, $len);
-#     ($len,$off) = thawScalar $off;
-#     local @uninit;
-#     foreach (0..$len) {
-#       ($uninit,$off) = thawScalar $off, $_;
-#     }
-#     $off += 3;			# Hardwired offset after @2|
-#   }
-#   croak "Unknown format of frozen array: " . substr($string,$off-3)
-#     unless substr($string,$off-3,1) eq '@';
-#   my ($first,$off2) = thawScalar $off;
-#   my $off3;
-#   ($first,$off3) = thawScalar $off2;
-#   substr($string, $off, $off2-$off) cmp substr($string,$off2,$off3-$off2);
-# }
-
-sub FreezeThaw::FCooky::FreezeScalar {
-  shift;
-  &freezeScalar;
-}
-
-sub FreezeThaw::FCooky::isSafe {
-  $safe || $noCache;
-}
-
-sub FreezeThaw::FCooky::makeSafe {
-  $noCache = 1;
-}
-
-sub FreezeThaw::FCooky::repeatedOK {
-  !$norepeated;
-}
-
-sub FreezeThaw::FCooky::noRepeated {
-  $norepeated = 1;
-}
-
-sub FreezeThaw::TCooky::repeatedOK {
-  $uninitOK;
-}
-
-sub FreezeThaw::TCooky::noRepeated {
-  undef $uninitOK;
-}
-
-sub FreezeThaw::TCooky::isSafe {
-  !$unsafe;
-}
-
-sub FreezeThaw::TCooky::makeSafe {
-  undef $unsafe;
-}
-
-sub FreezeThaw::TCooky::ThawScalar {
-  my $self = shift;
-  my ($res,$off) = &thawScalar($$self);
-  $$self = $off;
-  $res;
-}
-
-sub UNIVERSAL::Freeze {
-  my ($obj, $cooky) = (shift, shift);
-  $cooky->FreezeScalar($obj,1,1);
-}
-
-sub UNIVERSAL::Thaw {
-  my ($package, $cooky) = (shift, shift);
-  my $obj = $cooky->ThawScalar;
-  bless $obj, $package;
-}
-
-sub UNIVERSAL::FreezeInstance {
-  my($obj,$cooky) = @_;
-  return if (ref $obj and ref $obj eq 'Regexp' and not defined $$obj); # Regexp
-  $obj->Freeze($cooky);
-}
-
-sub UNIVERSAL::Instantiate {
-  my($package,$pre,$cooky) = @_;
-  return if $package eq 'Regexp';
-  my $obj = $package->Thaw($cooky);
-  # SvAMAGIC() is a property of a reference, not of a referent!
-  # Thus we cannot use $pre here if $obj was overloaded...
-  copyContents $_[1], $obj;
-}
-
-sub UNIVERSAL::Allocate {
-  my($package,$cooky) = @_;
-  $cooky->ThawScalar;
-}
-
-sub UNIVERSAL::FreezeEmpty {
-  my $obj = shift;
-  my $type = getref $obj;
-  my $e = $Empty{$type};
-  if (ref $e) {
-    my $ref = &$e;
-    freezeScalar $ref;
-    $ref;			# Put into cache.
-  } elsif ($e) {
-    freezeScalar($obj,1,1);	# Atomic
-    undef;
-  } elsif (defined $e and not defined $$obj) {	# Regexp
-    freezeREx($obj);
-    undef;
-  } else {
-    die "Do not know how to FreezeEmpty $type";
-  }
-}
-
-1;