Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wucs1!sbc
From: sbc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Steve B Cousins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: The best way to save data
Keywords: save, load, lisp, Database
Message-ID: <627@wucs1.wustl.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 88 15:13:42 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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Has anyone thought about the best way to save structures built
during an interactive lisp session so that they can be *efficiently*
loaded at a later date?  I'm wondering how writing the data as LISP
structures so that the resulting file can be loaded (using lisp load)
compares to just writing the data as a series of lines.  Is there
a better way that I haven't thought of?

I've been using the method of writing s-expressions to a file and using
load to bring them back, but it seems very slow to me.  Thanks for any
comments. [even moderate flames :-)]

Steve Cousins			sbc@wucs1.WUSTL.EDU
Washington University		"Procrastination is the root of all nighters"