[Python-Dev] 2.3.1 is (almost) a go (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at electricrain.com
Fri Sep 26 19:39:59 EDT 2003

For long-running SpamBayes apps like pop3proxy and the Outlook plugin, pickles make sense if shared access to the scoring database is not needed.

Combine that with data event/change logging and you have effectively the same thing as what many apps think they need to use a database library for. Replay the entire log of data changes internally on infrequent app startup to generate your internal state. when the log file is getting to big, write a full state snapshot and continue logging changes from it. no need to save the entire pickle everytime something changes.

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