Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cache-1.5.4 (stable) Released.

On 1 Apr 2004 at 17:05, Ian Eure wrote: > On Thursday 01 April 2004 04:47 pm, Alan Knowles wrote: > > These look like bugs, rather than deficiencies... > > Anyone who knows cache, care to comment... > > > > Deficiencies of Cache_file > > > > * Stores data hex-encoded on disk. Overhead is incurred when saving > > or retrieving cached data. > > * Cache must be used to access the cached data due to the encoding. > > * File sizes are increased due to the encoding. > > * Userdata with linebreaks can't be stored. > > > Userdata with linebreaks is definitely a deficiency, but I don't believe that > the other items are bugs. But why can't a binary file be stored as such? Imho it is much overhead to convert e.g. a image or large zip-archive to hex and back again. Stefan