On Friday, 27 December 2013 at 17:26:42 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
Also, gordon whats is keeping you from converting the textual
representation to a binary one? I mean, if you need to read
that file in often, you can easly preprocess it into a binary
blob. You could even modify my hashmap implementation to
support binary serialization, by just writing the entire array
to a binary file and loading it again.
That would be fast...
This is intended to be a general-purpose CLI program to handle
certain text files (from other sources), not a in-house
application where I can restructure my data.
Text files are still the most ubiquitous way to share data
(especially without limiting the languages/tools other will use
to process them).
But out of curiosity - how would you serialize it?
