It is a good analogy, obviously if you had millions of girlfriends it would take more memory :)
Memory in both cases would still be faster, anything loaded in memory will always be faster, anything accessing a harddrive will almost always be the bottleneck compard to loading from memory. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Nixon Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Advantages of Using SQL ? On Tue August 5 2003 08:32, SIMICRO ML wrote: > Peter Nixon wrote: > > On Tue August 5 2003 06:37, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > > Its like saying that example B is faster than example A in the following > > scenario: > > > > A) You need to call your girlfriend. You know her number, so you dial it > > and talk to her. > > > > B) You need to call your girlfriend, You don't know her number so you > > call your secretary and ask her to look it up in the phone book. Your > > secretary looks up the number, calls you back and give it to you, then > > you call your girlfriend. > > > > Which do you thing is faster?? Bzzzt. WRONG ANSWER. Just because the > > phone book has a great, wonderfully efficient index, and your secretary > > is very good at using it, doesn't mean that it's faster than having the > > number in your own head.... > > ... and what if you had _millions_ of girlfriends :-D Yes. Like all analogies it not perfect, but it does illistrate the point we were talking about. -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
