From: Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@...>
Date: 2003-12-12T07:19:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Fast loading of BIG data structures

Hi!

* Steven Lumos; 2003-12-11, 01:50 UTC:
> 
> I have a (really) big data structure, which looks like:
> 
>   Features = [
>     ["feature", ["parent1", "parent2"], {:C1 => [0.0, (7 more)], :C2 => ...}],
>     ...a LOT more (like 2500) lines...
>   ]
> 
> My question is: Is there an even faster way to load a big structure
> than this?

Special purpose C extension. Not that I recommend it in general
(leave alone: like it) but sometimes hand-optimized C code is the
best solution at hand.

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
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