serializing hash tables

Hello guys, here is my problem that i have no ideas how to solve. I have really HUGE hash table that builds on (S)XEmacs start from text file. That takes really long time and annoys much. What i want is somehow serialize this hash table and save to file, so on start i just need read this file and deserialize data back to hash table, which i believe will be much faster than building it from text file. is there any known methods to do this task? If no, what is the best aproaches you see in order to implement this? for someone who is interested in details: my hash is table of russian words that contains YO[1] and i use this table to perform automatic YOfication of the text. thanks Footnotes: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%81 -- lg _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta