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Re:LiteTree: SQLite with Branches by da_chicken on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @10:39AM (#17868521)
I prefer /dev/urandom or /dev/zero. They have a much higher likelihood of returning the data I wrote.
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Re:LiteTree: SQLite with Branches by jrockway on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @10:59AM (#17868701)
True! For maximum I/O efficiency, obviously you write to /dev/null and read from /dev/urandom.
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Re:LiteTree: SQLite with Branches by stuffchunk on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @02:20PM (#17870397)
Just how I like my CQRS!
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Re:LiteTree: SQLite with Branches by smolsky on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:15PM (#17872122)
No, no, /dev/urandom is really slow...
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