Alan Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you looked at Ian Bicking's SQLObject? > > http://sqlobject.org/
That sounds like Python object wrappers around SQL transactions. That's the opposite of what I want. I'm imagining a future version of Python with native compilation. A snippet like user_history[username].append(time()) where user_history is an ordinary Python dict, would take a few dozen machine instructions. If user_history is a shared memory object of the type I'm imagining, there might be a few dozen additional instructions of overhead dealing with the proxy objects. But if SQL databases are involved, that's thousands of instructions, context switches, TCP messages, and whatever. That's orders of magnitude difference. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list