On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Daniel Cheng <j16sdiz+freenet at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: >> Ian and I have eventually come to the conclusion that we should include db4o,
Yay. >> Of course there will be latency here when objects are >> not cached, so we will need to cache a few request choices in advance for >> each RequestStarter. And we will need to devise some way to deal with >> requests that don't want to be persisted - presumably we'd keep them in RAM. > > Please don't. > According to what I have read, db4o should be good enough to use directly: I agree with Daniel, DIY may be an admirable quality when it comes to home and car repair, but not with software. One of the benefits of using third-party stuff like db4o is that we can outsource problems to people far more focussed on the solutions to those problems than we can afford to be. If we spot a problem, we should fix it, but let's not fall into the "premature optomization" trap. Ian. -- Email: ian at uprizer.com Cell: +1 512 422 3588 Skype: sanity
