Re: Against sqlite3!!!

[David Engster]

> Actually, Emacs can serialize/deserialize hash table directly via
> prin1-to-string & read
>
> ```
> (let ((ht (make-hash-table)))
>   (puthash "test" "value" ht)
>   (format "%S" ht))
> ```
>
> You can use `read` to "parse" the string returned by that snippet and
> get a hash table.

Yes, and it's slow. The Gnus registry is saved/loaded this way, and this
has annoyed me for years.

-David