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Re: Package for data serialization?
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Package for data serialization? |
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Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:27:15 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Actually, I only assumed (a bit hastily maybe) that a binary
>> interpretation can be read significantly faster and that's why I
>> asked for it.
Eli> I think you will find that this assumption is false, except in
Eli> _very_ rare and marginal cases (like humongously long data
Eli> structures).
Eli> For example, one of the Emacs features writes to a file the
Eli> last place in each visited file as a Lisp data structure. On
Eli> my machine, this file is 31KB large, but Emacs still starts in
Eli> a snap, even though it reads this file at startup.
My package -- variant.el -- includes a file with all the English words
that Americans spell incorrectly. Of course, there are a lot of them,
so it's nearly 1M in size. Again Emacs reads this in too short a time
to measure.
Phil