[Chicken-users] Re: Anyone tried using datadraw with Chicken?

[Aleksej Saushev]

Matthew Welland <address@hidden> writes:

> Has anyone tried using datadraw (http://datadraw.sourceforge.net/) with 
> Chicken? If so did any of the claimed performance benefits transfer to 
> Chicken code? It almost seems like a scheme compiler or interpreter could 
> be built on top of datadraw or coupled extremely close to it rather than 
> moving data in and out of it but in any case an interface to chicken seems 
> like it'd be really cool.

Any comparison to Berkeley DB? Or is just anouther incarnation of GPL NIH?

> I have some large chunks of data to munge and Chicken + sqlite3 is proving a 
> bit slow (8-20 hour run times) and I'm considering rethinking my approach.

There's a trade between speed and persistency, you can't get both.
If you want speed more than persistency, you should just drop the latter,
use main-memory DB or even no DB at all, if you don't need query language
or sharing data between processes.