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[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 3/9/04 10:44 AM, "ron barber" <rbarber at yhb.att.ne.jp> wrote:

> Ruslan,
> 
> On Mar 9, 2004, at 5:13 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
> 
>> Storage on disk is other question.
>> There is no final decision yet.
>> May be we will allow assign on a field option how to store it on disk.
>> We need check what is better.
> 
> I realize that everyone's requirements are different. I would vote for
> speed over small storage in my particular case. The fewer conversions
> the better. Currently my files are stored as SJIS and converted by
> Revolution to UTF16 after Val retrieves them. My hope is that I can
> store the files in UTF16 in Val originally and skip the Rev conversion
> as well as any Val conversions.

Ron, small db size also affect speed.
Even better of all.

Because the smaller db the faster it reads from disk,
The small its size in cache, The fewer access to disk

> At one point it seems that we discussed having an option to store as
> UTF8 or UTF16? We now have text flds and vchar flds  so we would have 8
> and 16 flds options. So Val is 16 capable but we can store our data as
> either 8 or 16. But maybe my memory is not correct.

Yes, we discuss exactly this.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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