I'm working on a system of plug-ins where I'm going to have interpreted
bytecode stored in a database "module", but now I'm exploring storing the
same thing in a resource database format as an alternative.  The main
reason for that is expandability of the database... instead of bumping up
the version number for the database when I add something to the system and
having the interpreter change the offsets of where to look for things in
that database, I just add a resource type and add code to the interpreter
to deal without it if that new resource isn't there.  That way, the code
that determines where to look for what doesn't have to change. 

My question is this... is there any additional overhead (as far as dynamic
memory consumed) for a resource database as opposed to a regular database?

Thanks.

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