OpenGL Question

I'm trying to pre-process display lists (in OpenGL) and save to memory to help loading time as an exercise for when I develop for handhelds. How do I serialize the contents of a generated list?

Also, does anybody know a good DirectX/OpenGL wrapper?

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OP here. I was under the impression that display lists hold a sequence of primitive draw instructions, and that by pre-processing them before they're actually used, you could save quite a bit of computation time. For instance, if your draw procedure required many trig computations, you could sort of ``pre-compute'' all of the nasty calculations, then at runtime, ``call'' your display list.
Is my interpretation correct?
I'm also under the impression that it's possible to serialise the actual display list to persistant storage, so I can reload it at a later time. Is this possible?