From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2011-02-24T18:02:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Fast alternatives to "File" and "IO" for large numbers of files ?

If you read in all the data files and build a single Ruby data structure 
which contains all the data you're interested in, you can dump it out 
like this:

File.open("foo.msh","wb") { |f| Marshal.dump(myobj, f) }

And you can reload it in another program like this:

myobj = File.open("foo.msh","rb") { |f| Marshal.load(f) }

This is *very* fast.

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