Re: is there a way to serialize hash tables?

[Aleix Conchillo Flaqué]

No worries at all :-). I know you know. I just took the opportunity to
explain how it is pronounced, I'm aware most people don't know.


Best,

Aleix

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 12:48 AM Linus Björnstam <linus.internet@fastmail.se>
wrote:

> I have added it to my phone's dictionary, but for some reason it still
> autocorrects to Alex. Sorry about that. I know very well that it is Aleix.
>
> I remember I had the same problem last time.
>
> --
>   Linus Björnstam
>
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, at 00:18, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué wrote:
> > You almost got it right Linus, it's Aleix. :-)
> >
> > For the curious, it sounds something like "Alaish" or here in the US
> > most people can pronounce it as "Alesh". But more accurately [aleʃ]
> > (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Catalan)
> >
> > Anyways, happy hacking and happy New Year to everyone!
> >
> > Aleix
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 4:10 AM Linus Björnstam
> > <linus.internet@fastmail.se> wrote:
> > > Alex and I got the speed of guile-json up to about 19megs a second
> under guile 3 on a 4 year old intel i5, which may or may not be adequate
> for your needs, Tim.
> > >
> > > I have some code I wrote during that spurt that preforms slightly
> better than guile-json in general (about 3-4% on my machine. Alex could not
> repeat those numbers) an on files with many large strings in particular
> (10% in extreme cases).  If that is interesting I could put it online
> somewhere. The functioning code is a derivate work of guile-json, so the
> GPL applies.
> > >
> > > --
> > >   Linus Björnstam
> > >
> > > On Sat, 26 Dec 2020, at 05:28, John Cowan wrote:
> > > > I think that's the best bet, although JSON is also a possibility.
> I'm
> > > > working on a more general text-serialization solution, but it will
> be quite
> > > > some time before I have a chance to work on it.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 10:28 PM Tim Meehan <btmeehan@gmail.com>
> 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.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
>