LPM: FreezeThaw

[Steve Lane]

i (and my co-workers) have used FreezeThaw many, many times.
i'm fairly sure it's part of one of our core applications,
in fact.  it's been at least over a year since i wrote
anything with it, so i don't have any quick comments about
its use other than i remember it being extremely easy to
figure out and use.

it should definitely be suitable for serializing a hash.

you might also want to look at Storable.pm.  i think that's
what tchrist prefers.  that may be only because Ilya wrote
FreezeThaw, though...

good luck with it; it does sound like what you're looking for.

Rich Bowen wrote:
> 
> Have any of you folks used Freeze/Thaw for any serious data application?
> That is, something like using freeze() to bundle a hash, and put that in
> a database for later thawing? Perhaps this is not at all what it was
> intended to do, but it just occurred to me, that that might be a
> reasonable solution to a problem I've been chewing at for a while. If
> I've just been smoking the wacky weed to come up with an idea like that,
> just let me know.
> 
> More generally, I'd like to hear of any other application in which you
> might have used FreezeThaw.
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Steve Lane <sml at zfx.com>