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Either way, you would have to parse it into something equivalent to what they are storing in the database so you you could handle the various target formats ind
by pradocchia 17y ago
Either way, you would have to parse it into something equivalent to what they are storing in the database so you you could handle the various target formats individually.
As long as you tightly control writes to the database, I don't see the problem. And, you don't have the overhead of parsing on every read. For an environment where reads will be a few orders of magnitude greater than writes, it does make some sense.
- akamaka 17y agoIt seems incredible that they can't sacrifice some speed to parse on every read, and yet are also unwilling to sacrifice some disk space to cache several fully parsed versions. Considering how quickly CPU and disk performance change, this type of tightrope-balanced optimization seems crazy. Or maybe they're way smarter than me.