From: David Autry <davidautry@...>
Date: 2009-04-07T12:44:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Advice: XML vs. mySQL

Isn't there a drawback in terms of updating old data?

Thanks.

-Dave

Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2009, at 20:07, David Autry wrote:
> 
>> build it based on the XML data and the defined class.
> If these are Ruby objects, why don't you use Marshal?
> 
>> I want to keep this as simple as possible unless resource
>> management dictates I take the road less traveled.  The speed at which
>> the data is accessed is most important.  I plan to load into memory  
>> the
>> files that are currently in use by a user to speed up the process so
>> this makes me think that XML would suffice.  Hope this makes sense!
> 
> Marshal is likely going to be significantly faster than any XML
> serialization mechanism you write.

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