zlib/gzip + anydbm or ...
Gerhard Häring
gerhard at bigfoot.de
Wed Jun 19 03:02:25 EDT 2002
* James T. Dennis <jadestar at idiom.com> [2002-06-19 03:40 +0000]:
>
> Is there an obvious and simple way to use the existing standard
> libraries to support transparently compressed dbm files?
I don't think so.
If at all, you'll need to hack dumbdbm to achieve this goal, I think
only two approaches are feasible:
- compress the whole file with zlib, this means you need to keep the
whole file in memory
- compress only values with zlib
Option two could even be written with a simple wrapper around anydbm,
but will obviously only help if your average values are relatively
large.
Gerhard
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