From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Good I/O performance Date: 1998/04/18 Message-ID: <3101877274655839@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 345300069 References: <3536B704.4FB4E07F@infinet.com> <6h71rk$pej$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3101793694278498@naggum.no> <6h9il1$49j@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Steve Gonedes | I don't know about large lists; either way you look at it, your still | dealing with large lists. I usually just use pprint and read for that. I don't know how wide-spread such functions are, but Allegro CL gives access to the FASL reader and writer, as well. the exported symbols from the EXCL package are FASL-OPEN, FASL-READ and FASL-WRITE. I have not used them much, but they can save a bunch of otherwise hard-to-save structures, including hash tables, numbers as machine readable objects, etc, and read them back in again a lot faster than anything else you can write yourself. don't have any speed statistics, though. #:Erik -- on the Net, _somebody_ always knows you're a dog.