Personally I think the best reason behind using DB is that there is a ton of software that will help you read it in nice objective way. With text files you rather need to write parser/dumper, hence adding more work.
Cheers, fijal On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Armin Rigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Holger, > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:38:43PM +0200, holger krekel wrote: >> why is a DB table format better for refactoring than a text file? > > I suppose it isn't intrinsically. The point is that as far as I know > all our previous pypy benchmarks did not even produce a text file > containing the results only, in a way that can be nicely re-read by > program and refactored. They just produce directly text or html files > with the results embedded in whatever presentation was deemed best at > the time. > > More than that I have no preference for a DB format versus an > easily-reparsable text file format. > > > A bientot, > > Armin. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
