[sugar] simple datastore replacement, take two

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> | 2.- all metadata properties are just strings.
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> I think this is a good decision (especially since by strings you mean
> "byte arrays").  However, it's not quite true.  Your design actually has
> two classes of metadata properties: strings in "metadata" and files in
> "extra_metadata".
>
> I like this design, but I think we can make it both simpler and more
> powerful.  Consider, for example, using a single djb-style database.
>
> metadata/
>        author
>        difficulty
>        sessionkey
>        preview
>
> Each item is stored in a file whose name is the key, and whose contents
> are the value.

Implemented your idea, and after writing the decoding routine in C,
performance is quite good on the XO.

Thanks a lot, this makes things quite a bit more robust and simple.

Tomeu