From: Mukund <maruthim@...>
Date: 2009-04-07T22:19:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Advice: XML vs. mySQL

Use a database and use memcache.  XML files don't scale.
On Apr 7, 8:44 am, David Autry <davidau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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