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17:29:41
Josh_2
Ober: That string compressor turns my 128 string into 137
17:44:01
jcowan
Is that McCarthy's Elephant?
18:09:43
Ober
so progress! only using it on very large structures
18:44:52
Ober
is cl-store the best option to serialize structures/hashes, etc?
18:47:35
aeth
I think what's more common is to serialize into plists
18:48:17
aeth
as .sxp (more commonly .sexp, but that fails the Scunthorpe problem and will probably get filtered)
18:48:45
aeth
maybe not the *best* option, though
18:49:21
aeth
also requires a readable representation for everything involved
18:50:06
aeth
(structs have that, hash tables would need an extra step)
18:53:26
Lord_of_Life_
** NICK Lord_of_Life
19:01:17
Ober
oh serialize to a string for storage in a db.
2:01:52
kagevf
jcowan: I think they were talking about https://elephant.common-lisp.dev/doc060/Introduction.html