John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Mon May 7 23:46:57 EDT 2012

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On 5/6/2012 9:59 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Javier<nospam at nospam.com>  writes:
>> Or not... Using directories may be a way to do rapid prototyping, and
>> check quickly how things are going internally, without needing to resort
>> to complex database interfaces.
>
> dbm and shelve are extremely simple to use.  Using the file system for a
> million item db is ridiculous even for prototyping.

    Right.  Steve Bellovin wrote that back when UNIX didn't have any
database programs, let alone free ones.

				John Nagle

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