Passing variables between octave processes on the same machine

[Pavel Hofman]

Hi,

Please does anyone have any experience with passing complete variables 
between two independent octave processes (not parent/child via popen)?

The transport channel is easy - sockets, zeromq etc. I assume for 
serialization I could use the 'save' function:

bitstream = save('-', 'variable')


But I was not able to find a simple way to deserialize contents of the 
'bitstream' variable back to 'variable'. The 'load' function does not 
accept input from a variable (as far as I understand the documentation), 
only from a real file.

Actually, I would love to use a sequence of plain files but several 
messages must be sent every second and SSD drives do not like this 
constant create/delete file load. Creating a RAM drive would work but I 
need a multiplatform solution (linux, windows) and creating the 
platform-specific RAM drive would overcomplicate the project deployment.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions, experience, etc.

Best regards,

Pavel.