Re: [Demexp-dev] Some questions about the code.

[Serge Leblanc]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 20:08 +0200, David MENTRE wrote:
> Serge Leblanc <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I thought that this function has a significant role in the guarantee of
> > the persistency of information during a server crash. In this case the
> > use of binary was suitable.
>
> Well, the marshalling done by ocaml is quite slow. We'd better find
> another way do guarantee server data persistence in the future.

In your code, slowness comes more from the opening/closing file rather than the serialisation of Ocaml data structures. A solution is the opening of the binary file only during the initialization and appending the changing states of datas.

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