Hey Conrad, On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 14:24 +1100, Conrad Parker wrote:
Do you need concurrent access to the on-disk map, or will you just load, modify, then store explicitly?
The latter. There will be occasional updates to the map, but I can signal the workers using it to reload and/or restart them periodically.
Do you care about data corruption, eg. if your program/hardware fails during writing?
My backing store gives me atomic writes, so that's not a problem here [makes lots of problems go away. Remarkable, really].
I'd probably just use sqlite via something like esqueleto, because it's easy to inspect the stored data outside of your program.
Yeah, if external inspection were necessary that'd definitely be a good reason to go that way for sure. The report from Ozgur that just serializing out a Map structure was workable is encouraging, though. I'll start with that. AfC Sydney