Re: Package for data serialization?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On 13 Jun 2006, spamfilteraccount@gmail.com wrote:

> Is there a package for de/serializing an arbitrary elisp data
> structure, so that it can be read/written in binary format from/to
> disk?
>
> I know about prin1 and co., but they create a printed representation
> and I want binary for speed and size.

To save space, just compress the resulting file.  It will probably do
better for *arbitrary* data (if you know the data, for instance
images, you can obviously do a better job because you know what can be
thrown away).

I don't think the speed improvements will be worth the time you will
spend on this :)  Perhaps the fact that there isn't such a system
already indicates it's not worth the effort to build it.

Ted