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

[J C Lawrence]

On Sun, 22 Mar 1998 13:48:40 PST8PDT 
Jon A Lambert<jlsysinc at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> 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.

I'm willing to provide copies of the archives to anyone who is willing 
to dig them out and (hopefully) summarise them to the list...
 
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