Bil Kleb wrote:
> khaines / enigo.com wrote:
>>
>> I guess that depends on whether you need the files to be easily 
>> readable or not.  If you don't, Marshal will be faster than YAML.
> 
> At this point, I'm looking for an easy out that will
> reduce size and increase speed, and I'm willing to
> go binary if necessary.

What about mmap and pack/unpack, as ara does in

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/175944

?

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