All this talk about DataBases

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Jesse,

In case you don't know. HyperCard was written by a genius in assembly  
language. Here I'm going to make an assumption (with all of the known  
dangers of doing so), Rev was written by a "good" programmer;  
probably in a high or higher level language. Big difference. Then Rev  
has to do so much more as well.

Joe Wilkins

On May 29, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Jesse Sng wrote:

>
>> One huge advantage of using an external databsase like SQLite is the
>> ability to store data outside of RAM. HyperCard used to use a non-RAM
>> based design, but Rev stores everything in RAM. So, if you have an
>> address book which has 100,000 records in a single stack, then all  
>> the
>> records would need to be stored in RAM simultaneously, creating
>> performance problems.
>>
>> Plus, there are a number of huge advantages of using real databases.
>> Concurrent users, real transaction management, stored procs, etc..
>
> What I can't understand is the given the huge difference in hw  
> performance since the days of HC, we should at least expect to have  
> something that performs reasonably well and on par with whatever we  
> had back then.
>
> But we've gone through all the reasons and I understand, not  
> posting this to gripe.
>
>
> Jesse Sng
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