On 1/20/06 1:40 PM, Stuart Smith didst favor us with:
> Larry,
> we had a similar problem.
>
> First of all, I would take this statement to heart, as we did:
I didn't recall seeing this before (which could just be a statement about my
memory ;-), but I'm taking it very much to heart at the moment.
> " For situations where you need to store small amounts of persistent data,
> less than a few hundred kilobytes, Core Foundation provides property lists."
> this is from the "Introduction to Property Lists" at
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFPropert
> yLists/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000130i.
>
> We write very large xml structures by hand, bypassing CoreFoundation. To
> save space on disk we compress them using zlib. It is built into the system,
> extremely easy to use and very fast (much faster than the binary property
> list routines, even for moderately-sized lists).
Thanks. I guess I'll be looking into something along those lines.
Larry
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