From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A5C9BB81 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:30:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jBTFU5Cs006030 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:30:05 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA30551 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:30:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from warchicken.phauna.org (67-100-183-97.adsl.lbdsl.net [67.100.183.97]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jBTFU4Z3005975 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:30:05 +0100 Received: from ogunden by warchicken.phauna.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Erzj9-0007k6-TJ for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:30:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:30:03 -0500 From: "N. Owen Gunden" To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Persistent storage and stability of Marshal? Message-ID: <20051229153003.GB29493@phauna.org> Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <87wthruedp.fsf@linux-france.org> <43B114A9.3080301@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43B114A9.3080301@inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 43B400FD.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 43B400FC.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 pairs:01 asn:01 encodings:01 owen:98 wrote:01 marshal:01 marshal:01 lisp:01 thread:02 module:03 library:03 dec:04 xavier:06 tue:06 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:17:13AM +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote: > For 1-, in addition to the Marshal module, you can also use textual > formats: key-value pairs, XML, Lisp S-expressions, etc. Other > options are XDR or ASN1 encodings. You could consider using the fantastic S-expression library, developed at Jane Street Capital, for this step. Here's the thread where sexplib was introduced: http://tinyurl.com/9m4s4 - O