From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Package for data serialization? Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:27:15 +0100 Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Message-ID: References: <1150195170.157848.7260@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1150223892.528082.255170@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150281694 19236 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2006 10:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:41:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 12:41:32 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 1FqSoT-00068t-E1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:41:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqSoS-0008LB-W8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:41:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!newsfeed.bit.nl!193.201.147.81.MISMATCH!feed.xsnews.nl!feeder.xsnews.nl!193.201.147.77.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!news.highwinds-media.com!xara.net!gxn.net!feed1.jnfs.ja.net!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!news.ncl.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dinley.ncl.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk 1150280835 18745 128.240.150.78 (14 Jun 2006 10:27:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@newcastle.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:27:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EurLv0zVTeDBSRkbNmWbk1aq5/I= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139837 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35461 Archived-At: >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii 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