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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by NavinF on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:10PM (#32432423)
SQLite has identical performance vs parsing ad hoc text files assuming you're reading from flash not RAM. It's also a lot faster if you're loading a few settings from a larger file.
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by codedokode on Saturday August 13, 2022 @04:53AM (#32448059)
SQLite is inefficient. For example: it parses table definitions and SQL queries, builds execution plans at runtime, although this could be done at compile time.
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by NavinF on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:59AM (#32448366)
Like I said it makes no difference when your SSD takes 40us to respond to a read. Maybe you have an exceptionally slow CPU?
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