tdb performance

[Christopher R. Hertel]

> tdb is not as fast as I would like it to be. I was wondering if anyone had
> considered caching for the recently accessed keys in the database (perhaps
> the size of the cache being configurable on open)? My hope is that perhaps
> someone who understands the code a bit better can explain to me why it is
> a grossly terrrible idea before I go ahead and try to implement it.

This is a *wild guess* as I'm not familiar with the TDB code itself... 
but any caching would need to allow for multiple simultanious access just
as TDB does.  I think that would be the only thing that would cause a
problem. 

Chris -)-----

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