[MUD-Dev] Is database access a bottleneck?

[bradley newton haug]

Jo Wrote:

> These days it's quite frequently a better bet to simply do the
> calculation, at least if the hashtable is big enough that it will
> mean a cache miss most of the time, whereas the calculation
> doesn't touch memory much.  Raw CPU speed has increased a /lot/
> faster than memory speed, and these days the root of most
> optimisation is reducing accesses to RAM and improving locality of
> reference.

What I wrote about hashtables and using precalc tables was not a
guess, a midnight rambling, supposition, or thinking out loud.  It
is based on my personal, recent experiences on the subject.

regards
brad


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