Hi, monks!

I'm generating student accounts at a community college. I read in daily flat-file enrolment and fee data and then adjust accounts accordingly. Unfortunatly, this is only instant-in-time data and it doesn't help me very much for complicated situations, like name changes and missed-a-day problems and whatnot. So, I'm writing a new system that contains history as well as the right-now data. This means I'm going to have a lot more data and I'm going to search it in a lot more ways. I have a prototype that I wrote several years ago, and it's durn slow and I'd like this one to be faster. I figure I could use a database or maybe just dbm files, or maybe a flat file really is fine, but I had other problems. So, I want to compare some different ways of storing and retrieving this stuff.

My problem is, I can't think of a way to test and benchmark without writing a complete app in each case. I'd like to benchmark with a test rig of some kind, but I don't know how to make a test rig that would be accurate without just building the whole app.

Any advice?

Thanks!
--Pileofrogs

In reply to Benchmarking Strategy? by pileofrogs

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