From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2011-02-27T18:16:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Fast alternatives to "File" and "IO" for large numbers of files ?

Philip Rhoades wrote in post #984112:
>> 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) }
>
>
> I did read up about this stuff but I have to have human readable files.

You can use YAML.dump and .load too. Not as fast, and rather buggy(*), 
but it would do the job.

(*) There are various strings which ruby's default YAML implementation 
(syck) cannot serialize and deserialize back to the same string. These 
might have been fixed, or you could use a different YAML implementation.

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