On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Mark Talluto <m...@canelasoftware.com> wrote:
> Using arrays to make your own key/value type database is very doable. The > performance is probably indistinguishable with other databases for many > types of apps. You can store data to disk easily with arrayEncode(); LSON > as Richard has coined it. > I did this, and accessed by function calls. And then I adjusted the function to allow it to be either an array or a :memory: SQLite. And then I found that the database worked far better for me. Particularly, the ability to SELECT WHERE works very well for what I'm doing. I would have had to reinvent this with a way to loop through my array in live code (quite doable, yes) which is already there with the database. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
