why are custom properties so fast?

Sat May 14 00:16:38 EDT 2005

--- Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> The inventor of the engine, Scott Raney, once
> recommended to me to use
> stacks with only about 5,000 cards, and if you
> need more you'll get
> better performance using a database like
> Valentina for storage and
> retrieval.
> 
> But Dr. Raney overlooked the beauty and
> simplicity of his own custom
> properties.  I've worked on projects with tens
> of thousands of custom
> properties with narry a blink.

> For some other thoughts on use stack file
> properties for storage see:
> <http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/
> use-revolution/2002-July/006149.html>

Erik Hansen

erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org

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