Berkeley DB 4.5 available

Berkeley DB 4.5 available

Posted Sep 28, 2006 9:26 UTC (Thu) by hawk (subscriber, #3195)
In reply to: Berkeley DB 4.5 available by dark
Parent article: Berkeley DB 4.5 available

It's obvious that if it does indeed store numbers as their string representation, that certainly is a big waste of space.

For instance, which is better use of 4 bytes, to be able to store numbers 0-9999 or 0-4294967295 (if we take unsigned integers as our example)?

(Or if you want really small numbers as your example, with one byte you get 0-9 vs 0-255.)

You do however have a point, but what I'd say is not that it's efficient, but rather that for many uses it may not matter that much that it's awfully inefficient.

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