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<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
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Date: Sun, 5 Apr 98 09:03:38 MST
Message-Id: <9804051603.8wb5#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
From: cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA (Chris Gray)
To: cynbe#muq,org
Cc: claw#under,engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Persistant storage.... My current idea.
[Had you meant this to not be going back to the MUD-Dev list?]
:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA (Chris Gray):
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:| If you keep an index table in memory all the time, then there will also
:| be no more than one disk read to get any DB entry.
:| [...] After a few header words, index file is an array of small
:| structs, containing a 16 bit slot length, a 16 bit 'used' length, and
:| a 32 bit file offset.
:
:True, but if ram is cheap, why use disk-basing at all? :)
In my case, the index file is usually quite a bit smaller than the full
database file.
:What's your average object size?
I just went and checked the 3 scenario's I have available:
which DB index ratio
-------------------------------------
main world 611680 49764 12.2
castle 150004 17660 8.5
simple 5772 716 8.1
'main world' has about 30K source lines, and includes 6 quests, combat,
on-line building, etc. 'castle' is just a graphical overhead view castle,
with no actual game-play, of a 100+ room castle on 7 levels. 'simple' is
a minimal, but playable scenario that I use as a learning example.
Small strings tend not to be duplicated, since they are either in the
world code, or are attached to model objects and inherited. The DB also
holds all of the MUD code, in a linearized parse-tree form, along with
symbol tables to hold everything, and both of those can get large.
:I presume your scheme works well with your design, but with many
:systems, statistics show an average object size of 13-16 bytes.
I looks like mine would average nearly 100 bytes.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00506" HREF="msg00506.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MAPPING: Creating a bitmaped graphic from map</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00586" HREF="msg00586.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MAPPING: Creating a bitmaped graphic from map</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00554" HREF="msg00554.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MAPPING: Creating a bitmaped graphic from map coordinates</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00282" HREF="msg00282.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Persistant storage.... My current idea.</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00260" HREF="msg00260.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Re: MUD Development Digest</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 22 Apr 1998, 23:26 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00249" HREF="msg00249.html">[MUD-Dev] (fwd) Sea of Blood Graphical MUD</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 22 Apr 1998, 19:29 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00441" HREF="msg00441.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Teamwork</A></strong>,
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