The philosophy may make some sort of sense in the context of server-based wikis or other systems with unlimited resources or with shorter documents. But TW5 has no indexed optimization, and the bigger it gets, the slower it gets. Each tiddler that is created has a substantial amount of overhead adding to the overall size of the file. This really adds up in a big document like the Bible. This is why an empty Bible done verse-by-verse can be nearly twice as big as a filled Bible done by chapter -- maybe even a lot larger since the example of "Empty" given here doesn't have placeholders for the OT (I think).
Mark On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 6:35:50 PM UTC-7, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: > > If you want to work with large chunks of data, sectioned into bits, it > probably still makes sense to build a system that uses individual tiddlers > as the fundamental units. The alternative is to have a two-teir heirarchy > where individual chunks are referred to by "container + identifier", > meaning that they can no longer be addressed individually at all and > creating all sorts of conundrums (conundra?) about what to do if a chunk > gets moved to a new article, or into multiple articles. Transclusion > probably becomes 8x more complicated too. > > IMHO the 'philosophy of tiddlers' is correct as an underlying approach to > handling the information and what we need to consider are mechanisms that > we can build on top of that to serve the needs of end users. You may have > seen Jeremy's tentative foray into this area with the test-slicer (plugin, > edition?). I'm interested in this area of development, even though I don't > have any pressing need to use it myself and I occasionally spend time > trying to think of a neat solution. I think one of the tensions at the > heart of the issue, which was touched upon in other recent forum threads, > is the dual role of the title field as both the human-readable title of a > piece of writing, as commonly understood, and it's role as the primary key > in the data-store. > > Sorry, this is a bit of topic. > > Regards, > Richard > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/85b89d49-f5e8-436f-b7a6-5a7b3d46dc19%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
