Re: is there a way to serialize hash tables?

[Linus Björnstam]

I have added it to my phone's dictionary, but for some reason it still 
autocorrects to Alex. Sorry about that. I know very well that it is Aleix.

I remember I had the same problem last time.

-- 
  Linus Björnstam

On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, at 00:18, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué wrote:
> You almost got it right Linus, it's Aleix. :-)
> 
> For the curious, it sounds something like "Alaish" or here in the US 
> most people can pronounce it as "Alesh". But more accurately [aleʃ] 
> (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Catalan)
> 
> Anyways, happy hacking and happy New Year to everyone!
> 
> Aleix
> 
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 4:10 AM Linus Björnstam 
> <linus.internet@fastmail.se> wrote:
> > Alex and I got the speed of guile-json up to about 19megs a second under 
> > guile 3 on a 4 year old intel i5, which may or may not be adequate for your 
> > needs, Tim.
> > 
> > I have some code I wrote during that spurt that preforms slightly better 
> > than guile-json in general (about 3-4% on my machine. Alex could not repeat 
> > those numbers) an on files with many large strings in particular (10% in 
> > extreme cases).  If that is interesting I could put it online somewhere. 
> > The functioning code is a derivate work of guile-json, so the GPL applies.
> > 
> > -- 
> >   Linus Björnstam
> > 
> > On Sat, 26 Dec 2020, at 05:28, John Cowan wrote:
> > > I think that's the best bet, although JSON is also a possibility.  I'm
> > > working on a more general text-serialization solution, but it will be 
> > > quite
> > > some time before I have a chance to work on it.
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 10:28 PM Tim Meehan <btmeehan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I have a big-ish blob of key-value pairs that I would like to not have 
> > > > to
> > > > store as text and then convert to a hashtable when I am filtering my 
> > > > data.
> > > >
> > > > Right now I am saving it as an alist and then converting back to a
> > > > hashtable using "alist->hashtable" from SRFI 69. I was just hoping that
> > > > there was something more clever ... perhaps it is plenty clever enough.
> > > >
> > >
> >