From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2003-03-12T21:33:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshal.dump() taking a long time

Hi, Philip,

> From: Philip Mak [mailto:pmak@aaanime.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 9:28 PM

> STDERR.puts "Successfully parsed #{line_num} entries. Saving..."
> print Marshal.dump(dict)

Try
  anIO = STDOUT
  Marshal.dump(dict, anIO)

> STDERR.puts "Saved."

String concatination while serialization might be the bottleneck.

Regards,
// NaHi