At 07:24 AM 5/18/2002 Saturday, you wrote: >On Fri, 17 May 2002, Shay wrote: > >>At 05:42 PM 5/17/2002 Friday, you wrote: >>>Text parsing can be really fast. You might be surprised to know that a >>>lex+yacc parser loads the CircleMUD world faster than the current db.c code >>>does. >> >>Why not fully switch to an actual database? Say, MySQL? I've done so in >>my Java implementation of Circle and have found it to be quite fast. > >Because even if we wrote SQL support we'd need text files for those people >who don't have or don't want to run an SQL server. 'Those' people don't deserve to be running a MUD! :) j/k.. Sometimes I need to realize the blinders are back on, and take them off. I will gracefully bow out of the sql debate. -Shay -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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