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Posted Feb 26, 2011 13:24 UTC (Sat) by job (guest, #670)
In reply to: Plain Text by dgm
Parent article: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail

True. For small projects (less than a couple of hundred thousand records perhaps), I just keep data in RAM and serialize to plain text periodically. RAM is cheap, even 100 MB of data structures is practically free, and crazy fast. I like to think lesser external dependencies make deployment easier and crashes won't hurt you all that bad.


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