Thanks, I figure now in 2014 disk space is not a big deal, and any two sequences of text will compress to something really small, so saving disk space is not a compelling reason for reference data. There was in fact a decent reason I wanted these to reference the same object, but of course I can't think of what that was now. It'll return to me when I'm half asleep.
On Monday, August 11, 2014 7:49:51 AM UTC-7, James Reeves wrote: > > 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 <5lvq...@sneakemail.com <javascript:>> 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 clo...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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.
