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