Re: sqlite3

[Arthur Miller]

Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> writes:

>> I suggested hashmap serialzied to/from file. I used such approach myself for
>> key-value pairs. It worked fine for me, it was quite simple to read/write
>> it. Currently I am testing a thing, and I use just assoc list to read/write 
>> it
>> to a file, and it works fine for me too.
> Did you do it in one-batch, or do you do it incrementally (aka only write the
> delta?). AFAIK the former is currently basically the standard practice
> (printing/reading an alist or sth similar), and it can get too slow if 
> the key value map gets large.
>
I just printed out everything at startup and end of application in a batch. But
that could be definitely done incrementaly in idle timer or something. Also one
could add notify watch so if it changed on disk outisde of emacs, it would be
auto reloaded.