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Posted by Moot on 12/18/06 14:11
Erwin Moller wrote:
> In general: If your application is running fine with a small file, leave it
> that way.
> A database will typically be faster if your file is big, because opening a
> big file and loading it into memory will take diskIO time, which is often a
> bottleneck on modern machines (fast CPU, relatively slow disk IO).
>
Building upon that... The file may be small enough right now for it
not to matter. But if it starts to get bigger in the future and you've
already gone heavily down this path, you may need to do significant
backtracking to switch over to a database.
Just something to keep in mind.
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