From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: is there a way to serialize hash tables?
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:13:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201226111347.GB10618@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACgrOxJEYB6jL1zThFRmenewqZipFpgzrgSY8zZa4kXzytGXhg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 09:27:49PM -0600, Tim Meehan wrote:
> I have a big-ish blob of key-value pairs that I would like to not have to
> store as text and then convert to a hashtable when I am filtering my data.
>
> Right now I am saving it as an alist and then converting back to a
> hashtable using "alist->hashtable" from SRFI 69. I was just hoping that
> there was something more clever ... perhaps it is plenty clever enough.
If that "dumping/restoring" seems too expensive (have you measured it?),
then another alternative might be to use "external" dictionaries, like
guile-dbm [1] or guile-wiredtiger [2]
Cheers
[1] https://www.gnuvola.org/software/guile-gdbm/
[2] https://guix.gnu.org/packages/guile-wiredtiger-0.7.0/
- t
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-26 3:27 is there a way to serialize hash tables? Tim Meehan
2020-12-26 4:28 ` John Cowan
2020-12-26 12:10 ` Linus Björnstam
2020-12-27 5:58 ` Tim Meehan
2020-12-29 23:18 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2020-12-30 8:48 ` Linus Björnstam
2020-12-30 17:19 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2020-12-26 11:13 ` tomas [this message]
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