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

On Saturday 03 April 2004 03:19 am, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > 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. > Now it can, with Cache_trifile, which does store the data (not necessarily a file) in raw format on-disk. Cache_file may have other perfectly acceptable uses.