Questions regarding efficient storing and representing data within a software application.

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Optimal Data Structure for our own API

I'm in the early stages of writing an Emacs major mode for the Stack Exchange network; if you use Emacs regularly, this will benefit you in the end. In order to minimize the number of calls made to ...
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Patterns for a tree of persistent data with multiple storage options?

I have a real-world problem which I'll try to abstract into an illustrative example. So imagine I have data objects in a tree, where parent objects can access children, and children can access ...
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Single write, multiple read of stateful objects

Scenario: One data input feed (call this Source) Multiple objects (call these Layer1) read this Source, and analyze the feed. This analysis is stateful. Layer1 objects have configuration parameters. ...
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Handling timeout in network application

How can I handle timeouts in a network application. I'm implementing a provisioning system on a Linux server, the code is huge so I'm going to put the algorithm, it works as like this Read ...
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What data structure is suitable for implementing dynamic huffman encoding and decoding on a piece of text?

Some pseudo code or resources will be appreciated.I was thinking if implementing it in form of a BST stored in an array. However,not all operations can be performed easily using this approach. I am ...
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HDF vs NOSQl solutions

Hi I get a look in some scientific data stored in HDF5 format and I was wondering if there is any NoSQl solution that will reach the same performance in read/write as HDF5 . The data of my example ...