Folks, I have a question regarding the storage mechanism used for debbugs..i understand everything is kept on flat files...my question is-how come http://bugs.debian.org has such good response times?
i mean we were all taught that flat files are slower than an RDBMS as a rule..and also that plain CGI/Perl is slower,cannot fork many processes blah blah.. How is it that searches are so fast?turbocharged hardware?? BTW,has anybody considered using XML for storage?we don't need a database and the advantage is that many third party tools can integrate with debbugs since data is anyway exchanged in XML So , for example if anybody is intrested in a JAVA swing front end or a python/tk FE-all he has to do is study the XML schema..what do u think? Regards, Ivan
