> > I guess you will have to write this one yourself, it will be to D what > JSON > is to javascript ;) :-)
> > I wonder how much of an performance improvement you will get though when > loading data at runtime. As I couldn't even figure out how to save an multidimensional array in JSON we may never know :D > You still have to parse and check everything since > it remains a text based format. I will be focussed on (safe) speed and not flexibility because as you mention otherwise it might be useless for the large arrays I wish to get/write > > I know of one other solution but that's again not available for D: google > protobuf: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ > This uses a text-based format for describing the structure of the data, > but > the actual data can be in an optimized binary format. > For me the data should be readable. You may write the binary extension if you like :)
