If your purpose is just to save disk space, then I'd suggest just using compression. Two identical data types should produce the same sequence of bytes, which are easily compressed. I believe Nippy has a fast compression via Snappy enabled by default.
- James On 10 August 2014 19:36, MS <5lvqbw...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to write an EE schematic capture program in clojure. I'd like > to be able to define a prototype component, say a resistor with value=10k, > then be able to instantiate that many times, with each instance having an > additional property such as a name string. It's easy to ensure (identical? > (proto instance1) (proto instance2)) returns true while in-memory, > however I'm not sure how to write this out to disk. > > It seems the serialization libraries, print-dup, edn, etc., operate on > values, so reading the database back in won't guarantee it's really the > same object. I'd like to have the thing defined *once* then instantiated > many times, and have this captured in the on-disk version. > > Am I barking up the wrong tree? ie, given immutable data structures, > there's kind of no point in doing this. I'm actually trying to save disk > space, so I'd like to be able to refer in a few characters a potentially > large structure that was defined earlier. It would also be nice to have > this be human readable. > > Would one of the JSON serializers do this for me? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
