From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA24568; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 08:17:55 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA24400 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 08:17:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from swordfish ([216.241.35.41]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gBQ7Hqn20755 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 08:17:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from matt by swordfish with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18RSH5-0000VP-00 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:17:47 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:17:47 -0700 From: Matt Gushee To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Cross-platform DBM equivalent? Message-ID: <20021226071747.GC1071@swordfish> Reply-To: Matt Gushee Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@inria.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hello, all-- I am developing an application that needs fast access to persistent configuration data, and I thought that DBM might be a good way to provide that functionality ... but I see that DBM isn't available on Windows. Is there something similar that works on all platforms? Or an alternative approach? My project is a web server application, so it might be okay not to support Windows, but I'd like it to be cross-platform if that can be done without an unreasonable effort. By the way, I'm at an early prototyping stage, so I can't be much more specific about my needs. What I can say at this point is that speed is important; I think I need a key-value data structure, and it's probably okay for the types of both keys and values to be limited to strings, as with DBM. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. -- Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through mgushee@havenrock.com its fields; http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, Horses bear soldiers through its streets. --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.) ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners