List or Dictionairy or neither?
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Fri Aug 24 11:15:30 EDT 2001
>> Hey, that sounds rather good to me. I'll think about the database,
>> too. But somehow I like this 'homemade' approach a little
>> better. ;-)
Andrae> Now my curiosity is piqued. Why would you possibly prefer the
Andrae> non-standard, probably less efficient, more complicated, and
Andrae> probably buggier "write your own database" solution over the far
Andrae> simpler "use dbm/msql"?
I'll offer why I went so long before switching from a homegrown database to
MySQL. For a long time I used libdb with my own homegrown query system
thrown on top of it. Performance was and still is the prime consideration.
I switched to MySQL about a year ago and have been trying to regain my old
performance levels ever since. I switched for two reasons: generality and
maintainability. I was able to toss out a lot of code and now have a system
that is both much easier to extend and much better normalized (in the
database sense of the term).
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