Re: [pacman-dev] Fast binary database

Sivert Berg wrote:

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Hello,

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I see you have discussed the database question several times. I hope this

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could give you some answers (is a binary database really faster etc). It's clear that binary data are faster than txt data. There are some guy

code that don't want to hear this: their way is the best {clean, useful etc} and others sucks.

Well, I could accept pluggable db back-ends in libalpm [and maintain an officially supported one here]. The problem is, that you must get your distro to provide you special db formats for sync repos. [Converting databases is odd imho]. But we agreed earlier that optimizing sync-repo-db is much easier, because that is a read-only db, so their "inefficiency" [from your point of view] might disappear in the future. Bye ---------------------------------------------------- SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/