Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv27977

Modified Files: Tag: SQL-BACK-END CREDITS TODO Log Message: Minor changes to the credits file.

Date: Wed Oct 19 17:24:51 2005 Author: rread

Index: elephant/CREDITS diff -u elephant/CREDITS:1.4.2.1 elephant/CREDITS:1.4.2.2 --- elephant/CREDITS:1.4.2.1 Tue Oct 18 22:00:44 2005 +++ elephant/CREDITS Wed Oct 19 17:24:50 2005 @@ -2,7 +2,13 @@ Authors: Andrew Blumberg and Ben Lee ablumberg@common-lisp.net and blee@common-lisp.net

+Current maintainer: Robert L. Read +read@robertlread.net + http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant + + +The CL-SQL based backend was written by Robert L. Read.

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Index: elephant/TODO diff -u elephant/TODO:1.7 elephant/TODO:1.7.2.1 --- elephant/TODO:1.7 Tue Sep 21 21:34:37 2004 +++ elephant/TODO Wed Oct 19 17:24:51 2005 @@ -1,5 +1,20 @@ Merge in the todos from the source and the NOTES!

+October 19, 2005 + +The SQL back-end stuff has only been tested with +Postgress and SBCL. + +Using SQLite and mysql would really expand the +usage of the system, I assume. + +The database-stuff is fairly slow since it +does normal serialization and then Base64 encoding. +This is very safe and simple, but costs us a lot of bytes +to and from the database; a better serializer would +make things MUCH faster. + + new counters in 4.3 (october)

understand the profiler / timer, tweak performance of CLOS