On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote: > Every so often I check the CVS timeline > (http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/timeline) to get a preview of the changes > being checked in. It helps me know what to expect in upcoming releases. > Lately Dan has been checking in stuff for "SSE". Do you mind if I ask: what > is SSE? >
SSE is a proprietary extension for SQLite that allows SQLite to be run on low-power, low-memory embedded devices. SSE separates the SQL parser from the B-Tree backend. The parser runs on your development platform and only the B-Tree backend needs to be put onto the embedded device. This reduces the footprint of the library to about 75KB, depending on what features you decide to leave out. (Example: many embedded applications do not require the built-in date/time functions which saves about 8KB.) SSE is proprietary. It is available by license only. It is designed for use by embedded device manufacturers and is of little use to open-source developers. The bulk of the SSE code is in a separate, private source tree. But a few adjustments to the public domain SQLite source base have needed to be made in order to properly integrate SSE. It is those (relatively minor) adjustments that you are seeing on the SQLite website. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
