2007/7/27, Bayley, Alistair
BTW, do you really need to marshall PackedStrings to blobs? The Sqlite library uses CStrings, and I assume that CString to PackedString marshaling is fairly efficient, so that would seem to be a better choice. (I have no experience of PackedStrings, so there might be good reasons to prefer blobs, and I'd like to know what they are.)
The main reason is that I'm working on a Sqlite back-end for Darcs, that will be used to store file contents. I think to choose Takusen as back-end library mainly because it has the blob functions of Sqlite already mapped. In Darcs PackedStrings are used to store file contents in memory. I don't think that it would be very efficient to store files of megabytes in a text column (there could be encoding problems too). Also, in Sqlite 3.4, they introduced new functions for incremental reading / writing of Blobs. I could use them in the future. Thank you a lot for helping! I'll surely send you the patches, even if the PackedString support will be a little Darcs-specific (I don't think that requiring it for compiling Takusen is a good idea). Salvatore Insalaco