Re: Stupid question regarding disk basis a db...

• Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:50:57 PST
• From:
  hpa@trantor.storm.net (H. Peter Anvin)
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In article <2.2.32.19960220041910.0069efd8@nebula.ispace.com>,
George M. Ellenburg <gme@nebula.ispace.com> wrote:
>
>Is it possible to have all the MOO code (verbs, etc.) stored on disk and
>then read off internally instead of all the verbs, rooms, etc. being stored
>entirely in RAM?
> 

This, my friend, has been THE most requested feature in all of MOO
history.  1.8.0 contains some code abstraction to simplify a
transition to such a system, but doesn't actually implement it.  It is
not trivial, or even easy.

> 
>"My momma always told me life was like a box of chocolates; what she failed
>to mention was that life can be just as addicting."
>

No kidding.  As far as I've known, noone has ever kicked the habit and
survived.

	-hpa



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