Berkeley DB dependency

[Eray Ozkural]

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 14:05, Harald Fernengel wrote:
> We need it to efficiently store the auto-completion stuff for the
> persistant class store. Storing it in XML files would waste too much disk
> space and would be too slow, so we decided to use the most lightweight and
> most mature library we could find to store a lot of data.

bdb is actually very efficient since it uses b+ trees and has effective memory  
caches.

cheers,

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