From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-07-10T20:41:02+09:00
Subject: Re: GC oddness

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Alex Young wrote:
>> Eric Hodel wrote:
>>> On Jul 7, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Alex Young wrote:
>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, that's not going to work here.  What I'm trying to do 
>>>> is create a drop-in replacement for a small subset of Array's 
>>>> functionality which serialises its contents to disk rather than 
>>>> keeping it in memory, for some existing code.
>>>
>>> Have you looked at PStore?
>> Yes.  The serialisation isn't the problem - it's the tidying up 
>> afterwards.  While I'm actually using YAML for the serialisation dump 
>> of the array entries, I could quite easily swap it out for PStore if 
>> it turns out that transactions become vital.  I might do that anyway - 
>> PStore's mature, and my code isn't :-)
> 
> You might find fsdb an interesting alternative to pstore:
> 
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/fsdb/

That looks quite intriguing.  I'll have to take a look at that.

-- 
Alex