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4950: Re: [MUD-Dev] World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??

On 22 Mar 98 at 12:17, Ben Greear wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Greg Munt wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm not sure of the advantages of binary flat files over ASCII ones. I 
> > would certainly advise the use of a cache, however. (Something which that 
> > TinyMUD never used.)
> 
> I'm definaly not going to write a custom caching mechanism...much easier
> and probably better to use the OS.
>

No. I don't beleive so.  Nathan and JC have posted extensively 
on this topic and are probably better equipped to argue it.  Of 
course, maybe they've only convinced myself. ;)

<<hint>> Anyone care to reprise these posts. 
 
 
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