You are a very ignorant person Mr Mark Waser. How do you know what I know or don't from a few sentences in an email? Have you designed and programmed a commercial database programming language that sold over 30,000 copies around the world? If you have points to make, then make them without the flames!
David Clark PS Would you call millions of records and hundreds of gigs of disk space small? How about looking for a random string in 16,000 emails (over 100 meg of emails) in 1 second. Slow? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Waser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) > > Optimization on DB's is done at a higher level than an index in any case. > > And with that statement, you prove that you don't know what you're talking > about . . . . Optimization on commercial DBs is done at all levels and > anywhere possible. > > - - - - - > > And by the way, while I would believe that your indexes could be as fast or > faster than any equivalent commercial DB software on small datastores, I > don't believe that they can scale up to the necessary sizes for AGI *and* > remain faster (or even close assuming that you could even handle the scaling > up). There are always trade-offs. Enterprise DBs have accepted unimportant > slowdowns at small scales to optimize for scaling to much larger sizes. And > the kid on the bicycle can get down the street long before the airline pilot > even starts the engines. > ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
