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Tue May 24 20:31:27 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-May/111635.html

Den 24.05.2011 17:39, skrev Artur Siekielski:
>
> Disk access is about 1000x slower than memory access in C, and Python
> in a worst case is 50x slower than C, so there is still a huge win
> (not to mention that in a common case Python is only a few times
> slower).

You can put databases in shared memory (e.g. Sqlite and BSDDB have options
for this). On linux you can also mount /dev/shm as ramdisk. Also, why
do you distrust the database developers of Oracle et al. not to do the
suffient optimizations?

Sturla

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