On 5/6/2012 9:59 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
Javier<nos...@nospam.com> writes:
Or not... Using directories may be a way to do rapid prototyping, and
check quickly how things are going internally, without needing to resort
to complex database interfaces.
dbm and shelve are extremely simple to use. Using the file system for a
million item db is ridiculous even for prototyping.
Right. Steve Bellovin wrote that back when UNIX didn't have any
database programs, let alone free ones.
John Nagle
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