Re: Simplified (a-la [G|N]DBM) DB access

Chris (and others), thank you for the good explanation! =)
I will try to use database as you recommend, thank you again for the
advices!


Regards,
/Alexandre.

On Apr 20, 2005, at 17:39, Chris Browne wrote:

> I think you're missing two points:
>
>  1.  With careful design, the ISAM "wrapper" can _avoid_ most of the
>      costs you suggest.
>
>      For instance, one might set up a prepared query which would only
>      parse, plan, and compile the query _once_.
>
>      Further, I'd expect that most of the behaviour could be
>      hidden in stored procedures which would further hide the need to
>      parse, plan, and compile things.  The ISAM-congruent abstraction
>      would presumably make it easier to use, to boot.
>
>  2.  Dan Sugalski indicated that he actually found the overhead to be
>      ignorable.
>
>      As a datapoint, that's pretty useful.  He actually went thru
>      the effort of building the ISAM wrapper, and discovered that
>      the overhead wasn't material.
>
>      You ought to consider the possibility that perhaps he is right,
>      and that perhaps you are trying to optimize something that does
>      not need to be optimized.
>
> Remember Michael Jackson's _First Rule of Software Optimization_,
> which is expressed in one word:
>
>         Don't.
>
> (And then there's his second rule, for experts: "Don't do it yet.")