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

[Jon A. Lambert]

On 22 Mar 98 at 12:16, Ben Greear wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Matt Chatterley wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Ben Greear wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > The game will need to update it's persistant storage very often
> > > to make this feasible. 
> > 
> > Yeah, I can imagine. This is going to be your main problem, I think. :)
> 
> Yep, I've got the rest mapped out pretty well, but I just can't get
> a happy answer for the persistant storage...

Ben, take a look a COOLMUD.  There are many other servers who handle
persistence of course.   I mention COOL because the code is 
particularly clean, simple, and modular.  After you look at COOL, 
think about multi-threaded or background I/O.  :)

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