zlib/gzip + anydbm or ...

[Gerhard Häring]

* James T. Dennis <jadestar at idiom.com> [2002-06-19 03:40 +0000]:
> 
>  Is there an obvious and simple way to use the existing standard
>  libraries to support transparently compressed dbm files?

I don't think so.

If at all, you'll need to hack dumbdbm to achieve this goal, I think
only two approaches are feasible:

- compress the whole file with zlib, this means you need to keep the
  whole file in memory
- compress only values with zlib

Option two could even be written with a simple wrapper around anydbm,
but will obviously only help if your average values are relatively
large.

Gerhard
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