Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 19:11, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:08:59PM +0100, jamie wrote:
> > > does it all much much faster with much less resource overhead than any
> > > "big" RDBMS I know of, embedded or not.
> > 
> > Faster? Using variants for types I doubt that very much. It might
> > outperform Postgres but I would be very surprised if it beat firebird.
> 
> sqllite is typeless.  Everything is text from what I remember.  So
> the type system is very simple.  

Yes but not efficient. (Typeless = variants).

EG in Firebird, I would *Always* define a table with a primary key that
was of type integer. Why? because integers are the quickest to sort.
SQLite allows you to enter a string into such a field so how cant it be
efficient?

jamie.



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