Lyu Abe
Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:32:48 -0800
Hi David,
But I have a question: the question tags are separated from the question structure... is that to avoid to have to retrieve all the questions? (maybe I'm not so clear)You mean: the tag labels are separated from the question structure? Well, the main idea is to reduce the amount of information associated with each question. Each tag has both an integer id and a string label and just the integer id is used with the question, so that needed storage is reduced. Moreover, a computer is much more efficient at handling integers than strings. Last but not the least, as it is expected that tags does not evolve that much, they can be retrieved from the demexp server and stored somewhere to be used more conveniently. Does it answer your question?
Yes thank you.
Lyu.
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