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Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??
On 22 Mar 98 at 12:17, Ben Greear wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Greg Munt wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm not sure of the advantages of binary flat files over ASCII ones. I
> > would certainly advise the use of a cache, however. (Something which that
> > TinyMUD never used.)
>
> I'm definaly not going to write a custom caching mechanism...much easier
> and probably better to use the OS.
>
No. I don't beleive so. Nathan and JC have posted extensively
on this topic and are probably better equipped to argue it. Of
course, maybe they've only convinced myself. ;)
<<hint>> Anyone care to reprise these posts.
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- Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??, (continued)
- Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??,
Ben Greear greear#cyberhighway,net, Wed 01 Apr 1998, 04:41 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??,
Vadim Tkachenko vt#freehold,crocodile.org, Wed 01 Apr 1998, 05:33 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??,
Greg Munt greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk, Sun 22 Mar 1998, 17:36 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??,
Ben Greear greear#cyberhighway,net, Sun 22 Mar 1998, 20:15 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??,
Jon A. Lambert jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com, Sun 22 Mar 1998, 21:27 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??,
J C Lawrence claw#under,engr.sgi.com, Mon 23 Mar 1998, 20:48 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??,
J C Lawrence claw#under,engr.sgi.com, Mon 23 Mar 1998, 20:41 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Parlez vous NPC?,
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Sat 21 Mar 1998, 18:10 GMT
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