From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Package for data serialization? Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:48:50 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1150195170.157848.7260@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1150223892.528082.255170@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150224566 7264 80.91.229.2 (13 Jun 2006 18:49:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 13 20:49:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqDwn-0006Fz-1Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:49:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqDwm-00027R-JV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqDwc-00027A-GG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqDwb-00026x-MI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:48:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqDwb-00026u-HN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:48:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FqE5b-0007km-HG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-34-238.inter.net.il [80.230.34.238]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id EWK69936 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:48:51 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <1150223892.528082.255170@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (spamfilteraccount@gmail.com) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35434 Archived-At: > From: spamfilteraccount@gmail.com > Date: 13 Jun 2006 11:38:12 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > Do you actually have a real-life case where the speed and size of the > > text representation is an issue? If so, please describe the details. > > 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. I think you will find that this assumption is false, except in _very_ rare and marginal cases (like humongously long data structures). For example, one of the Emacs features writes to a file the last place in each visited file as a Lisp data structure. On my machine, this file is 31KB large, but Emacs still starts in a snap, even though it reads this file at startup.