From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Package for data serialization?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:48:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud5dc51t9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150223892.528082.255170@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (spamfilteraccount@gmail.com)
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-13 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-13 10:39 Package for data serialization? spamfilteraccount
2006-06-13 11:13 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2006-06-13 13:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2006-06-13 13:37 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2006-06-13 16:02 ` Phillip Lord
2006-06-13 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2851.1150221485.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-06-13 18:38 ` spamfilteraccount
2006-06-13 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2854.1150224536.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-06-14 10:27 ` Phillip Lord
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