Re: [Chicken-users] status of chickenlib: build process and mysqlinterface usage sample

[Ed Watkeys]

Tony Garnock-Jones said:
> Joerg F. Wittenberger wrote:
>> I hardly have the time to look into that topic.  However I'd welcome a
>> unified inteface very much (if it's not too simple, like that one
>> http://groups.google.de/groups?q=oleg+scheme+database+group:comp.lang.scheme.*&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.lang.scheme.*&selm=72nj6p%249n%241%40nnrp1.dejanews.com&rnum=1
>> which is great for one shot programms, but hardly suited for performance
>> sensitive apps).
>
> I'm curious - what about the interface makes it too slow?

I can only speak in general, but interfaces that return an entire result
set consume lots of memory and can introduce lots of latency. For large
result sets, the ability to get a row at a time allows for low-latency,
constant-space programs.

Regards,
Ed

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