Tips / Tip of the day / Today I Learned category

[alexh]

There would have been even more to learn if the TIL was rephrased as a question, and we already have a "Questions" category.

For example:

I noticed that s-exp->fasl can be much faster when writing the data through a port instead of obtaining the FASL value and writing it to disk separately. Why is this the case?

So, does anyone here know why this is faster?

Alex.