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What are you comparing against here that's leading you to a different opinion? Are you claiming file I/O would be faster or that you could write the equivalent

• vardump 3y ago
  For example SQLite is superior. That said, on Windows you kinda have to use registry, especially on the kernel driver level.
  • dataflow 3y ago
    > For example SQLite is superior. First... where are you getting this from? I just spent half an hour writing a an incredibly simple benchmark and all I see is SQLite being something like 20x slower than a registry query, seemingly caused by repeated locking & I/O system calls. This is on a trivial database with just 1 table with just 1 row, vs. a registry that's on a machine that's been running for years. If you have a benchmark that can disable the locking and get comparable performance, I'd love to see it. Not that it would mean anything though, given the next point. Second, even if it were somehow faster... you'd be comparing apples to oranges. The registry has a bunch of things SQLite isn't designed for: security integration with the rest of the OS, a hierarchical structure, OS hooks for monitoring & interception, multithreaded access, etc. Have you tried doing these with SQLite before praising how fast it is? > That said, on Windows you kinda have to use registry, especially on the kernel driver level. Is it common for drivers to use SQLite to store configuration information in any OS? I dare say I've never seen this.
    • vardump 3y ago
      "Is it common for drivers to use SQLite to store configuration information in any OS? I dare say I've never seen this." It's not. You're going to use your assigned registry hive for it.