Re: Persistent storage

2003-08-04 Thread Nick Name
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:55:18 -0700 John Meacham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > an MVar contains the current puff history, which s dumped to disk > periodically if it has changed since the last dump, it relys on using > DrIFT to derive a Binary instance for [Puff] and concurrency to spawn > off

Re: Persistent storage

2003-08-04 Thread John Meacham
that is exactly what I implemented in ginsu http://repetae.net/john/computer/ginsu/ an MVar contains the current puff history, which s dumped to disk periodically if it has changed since the last dump, it relys on using DrIFT to derive a Binary instance for [Puff] and concurrency to spawn off a t

Persistent storage

2003-08-04 Thread Nick Name
Is there someone who has implemented some limited form of persistency in haskell? I don't mean the longly-debated persistence of functional values, but something rough, like a persistent MVar with a thread saving modified values every n seconds or so. Vincenzo _