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Re: OMR Planning - Almost There
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Date: 
Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:23:01 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Todd Lehman writes:
[...] In fact, even if you maintain
a persistent DB connection across multiple HTTP requests, if there's
anything to be dynamically created at all in the returned content, static
files are the fastest way, always.  [...]

(rereading what I wrote)

Uh, durrr, that came out as hogwash, didn't it.  I meant, if the pages that
are created dynamically happen to come out the same as though they had been
served statically (IOW, if it's static content generated dynamically), then
static files are no slower than DB-generated pages.

But like Larry said, if you've got anything complex that's cacheable, like
the results of complex queries or anything like that, then a DBMS is probably
better (certainly easier) at caching that sort of thing efficiently,
especially if the raw data on the disk that it may have to access happens
to be highly fragged.

--Todd



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(...) I have to wonder about that assertion in a really skeptical way. In either case, assuming the filesystem and the database aren't poorly written, the amount of RAM in the server is really the gating factor. If you have 50 MB of static files and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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