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Re: Using GDBM -- A new slant
****** message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk <birgitt@hamburg.citde.net> ******
mike@minivend.com wrote:
>
> ****** message to minivend-users from mike@minivend.com ******
>
> Quoting Brian T. Allen (brian@purenetfx.com):
> >
> > >maybe a stupid question, but how can I change from DB to GDBM
> > >(maybe this will solve my Hammered Lock problem when I wanna
> > >use the [tag each products][sort products:category][....] problem?).
> > >
> > >Thank you!
> > >
> > >Marius
> >
> > While we are on the topic, perhaps we could all share a little project here.
[snip]
> I can guarantee that the search takes milliseconds at most on 200
> products. The bottom line is that the searching is not what is taking
> time, it is the page building. I continually see things like:
>
[snip]
> This is abusing the MiniVend tag system which is designed to do some
> simple things without much coding.
[snip]
> I put warnings in the docs, but I guess that isn't a very good place
> to get the information across. ;-)
A wonderful place ! Across comes what one is willing to let in. :-)
>
> I know I have posted this type of thing many times before; I guess
> I should put up some new FAQ questions. 8-\
No way. In clpm people wasted months of discussion and bandwidth about
how one may help newbies to find and understand documentation. It is
not a matter of missing and unclear documentation, nor a matter of one
more and another FAQ. Simply a matter of needing to know much more
than most people expect.
[snip]
> This is how you should do very complex things. In the hairiest example I
> have seen, with literally dozens of [perl] and [if ...] tags in each
> search line, I took a 100-second-plus page build and made it return in
> less than 2 seconds using this approach.
And on the other hand I think it didn't take more than 20 seconds to
search through the
500 000 records last year with an older MiniVend version on a Pentium
Pro. Now, where one could test GDBM, Sybase, Oracle and Mysql without
costs on Linux, I wished I could test these again. If I manage to do
that I will provide the site as a "bogus" example to prove the docs
right.
Birgitt Funk
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