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| -rw-r--r-- | devel/p5-CHI-Driver-DBI/pkg-descr | 12 |
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diff --git a/devel/p5-CHI-Driver-DBI/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-CHI-Driver-DBI/pkg-descr index 2e063892e84e..5b08a4053e43 100644 --- a/devel/p5-CHI-Driver-DBI/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/p5-CHI-Driver-DBI/pkg-descr @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -This driver uses a database table to store the cache for CHI. +This driver uses a database table to store the cache for CHI. The newest versions of MySQL and SQLite are known to work. Other RDBMSes should work. -Why cache things in a database? Isn't the database what people are trying to -avoid with caches? This is often true, but a simple primary key lookup is -extremely fast in many databases and this provides a shared cache that can be -used when less reliable storage like memcached is not appropriate. Also, the -speed of simple lookups on MySQL when accessed over a local socket is very hard +Why cache things in a database? Isn't the database what people are trying to +avoid with caches? This is often true, but a simple primary key lookup is +extremely fast in many databases and this provides a shared cache that can be +used when less reliable storage like memcached is not appropriate. Also, the +speed of simple lookups on MySQL when accessed over a local socket is very hard to beat. DBI is fast. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/CHI-Driver-DBI/ |