On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:40:55 -0800, Stuart Smith <email@hidden> wrote:
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).
You might also check out Q&A 1208: "CFXML to CFPropertyList (and back)" at:
<http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1208.html>.
This wouldn't give him compression, and as the list has discovered,
binary property lists (which aren't disk hogs like XML) are too slow
for practical use.
