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Fastest way to export data from mt4?

Currently my mql4 script serializes OHLC data to delimited string and passes it to a DLL which performs further analysis. The performance is not very good, so I am thinking about alternatives. Would writing historical data from OHLC buffers to a binary file in a format just like .hst files be any

How you save data? Simple or global variables, files, db?

Hi, What methods do you use to store important data to make your MQL4 EAs resistant to platform crashes and other unexpected problems? I have read somewhere that global variables are not any better than simple variables and the data will not be saved if the platform crashes. Is this true? Currently