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Re: [cobalt-users] php resources compared to perl
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] php resources compared to perl
- From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Oct 18 12:58:10 2001
- Organization: Befriend Internet Services LLC
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
"Kingsly John" <kingslyj@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Mez wrote:
>
> |Nope the perl script does not use mySQL database currently.
>
> Using an mysql database you can reduce some amount of disk reads due to
> caching I suppose.
The main benefit is that with a properly indexed database table it's
extremely fast to look up a row in the table. Apparently the original
poster's Perl message board uses a flat file which does not scale very well.
A flat file is not suitable for an application like a message board unless
the # of records is low.
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