[REBOL] Re: [ANN] RebDB v1.1
From: atruter:labyrinth:au at: 22-Feb-2004 11:19
Hi Pekr,
> my friend looked for small DB, your solutions would be good for him, but
> the app is supposed to run on old notebook with only 16MB RAM. Is there
> really no way of how to get damned open/skip-or-whatever-would-help to
> work?
We can certainly emulate:
port: open/binary/direct/skip ...
with
port: open/binary/direct ...
copy/part port ...
perhaps replacing large "copy/part" operations with a "copy/part" loop of
some sort, but I don't know how efficient this would be for large files in
a low memory environment. It is certainly something I am looking at
(including small-memory devices) along with the broader issue of, "How can
I reduce REBOL memory usage to the bare minimum?". Using REBOL/Base along
with aggressive 'unset usage is where I am starting from.
> Currently, in rebol, being able to only work with in-memory
> storage is starting to be pretty painfull, I meet ppl here or there who
> don't want to install full mySQL server and would be fine with some kind
> of small rebol db, if that would not be memory based.
My position in a nutshell! The other case where not having direct/skip is
a pain (and copy/part is not an acceptable workaround) is trying to read
JPEG EXIF thumbnails over a dial-up line ... you have to read about 55Kb
of the file just to get the 5Kb thumbnail (160x120) you need, ARGHHH!
Regards,
Ashley
