Re: fast local-file storage for Gnus

[kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> This may be more of an Emacs question, but what can we use to do fast
> file-based storage in Gnus?  The registry and many others would
> benefit from this.

A GDBM interface would be good.

> If anyone knows of a simple way to tie a text key to a text value in a
> single file, that's all I need (with the usual add, delete, change,
> iterate functions).  If not, I could write a generic DB format in
> Emacs Lisp that stores the data in a text file, encoded to escape
> binary data, and indexed in some way.  I'm hoping to avoid that.

BBDB uses print and read, and I guess that's the fastest you can do
in Emacs.  (Hm.  Maybe create Lisp and byte-compile it.)

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