On 21 Aug 2002 at 2:09, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> Now using good old Fcntl to control access to simple "flat files".
> (Data serialized with pack("N*", ...); I don't think anything beats
> "pack" and "unpack" for serializing data).
>
> The expiration went into the data and purging the cache was a simple
> cronjob to find files older than a few minutes and deleting them.
>
> The performance? I don't remember the exact figure, but it was at
> least several times faster than the BerkeleyDB system. And *much*
> simpler.
>
>
> The morale of the story: Flat files rock! ;-)
If I'm using Apache::DBI so I have a persistent connection to MySQL,
would it not be faster to simply use a table in MySQL?
Peter
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