I'm guessing that you mean something different when you say 'configuration' than what most people do. When I say 'configuration' I'm talking about something:

  1. Small. The largest configuration file I've ever needed had around 50 values organized in 10 blocks. Apache configs usually come in around this size if you slice out all the defaults, for example.
  2. Human readable and editable. Generally in an Apache-esque format using Config::ApacheFormat.
  3. Not Performance Critical. Typically I'll load configuration data at Apache start-up and forget about it. It's just a hand-full of scalars and hashes, how bad could it be?

It sounds to me like you're dealing with a beast of a different stripe. You're storing data in a non-readable format and you're worried about memory size and access speed. So what are we really talking about? And what's all this noise about being more reliable than the database?

-sam

In reply to Re: Configuration Files by samtregar
in thread Configuration Files by Mutant

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