From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-platform DBM equivalent?
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 00:21:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021227072153.GC608@swordfish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212261650.RAA04279@pauillac.inria.fr>
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 05:50:26PM +0100, Pierre Weis wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:39:33AM +0100, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
> > >
> > > >I am developing an application that needs fast access to persistent
> > > >configuration data, and I thought that DBM might be a good way to
> > > >provide that functionality ...
>
> As far as I know the best (and simpler) way to do this for reasonable
> number of URLs bindings (say thousands but not millions) is to create
> a Hashtlbl.t or Map.t and dump it to file using output_value (then
> read it back with input_value). In any case, I would start with this
> solution, since it provides cross-platform persistency with 4 lines of
> Caml code. A fast and easy way to obtain fast and good results!
That sounds good. I'll try it. Thank you very much for the suggestion!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-27 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-26 7:17 Matt Gushee
2002-12-26 8:39 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-12-26 10:05 ` Matt Gushee
2002-12-26 16:50 ` Pierre Weis
2002-12-26 17:03 ` Joshua D. Guttman
2002-12-27 13:07 ` Pierre Weis
2002-12-26 17:08 ` David Brown
2002-12-26 18:23 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-12-27 13:11 ` Pierre Weis
2003-01-12 10:13 ` Sven Luther
2002-12-26 19:20 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-12-27 13:19 ` Pierre Weis
2002-12-27 18:03 ` brogoff
2002-12-27 7:21 ` Matt Gushee [this message]
2002-12-26 20:00 ` Yaron M. Minsky
2003-01-02 10:03 ` Xavier Leroy
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