"Andrew Hamm" <ahamm_at_mail.com> wrote in message
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> Further (with Informix, once again) the engine can use KAIO, and with the
> architecture of Informix, this can lead to further significant
improvements.
> It all adds up. Why do you think F1 now make their pedals out of carbon
> fibre? And they *still* drill 'em out for extra lightness. An Informix
> engine using raw with KAIO and a decent layout of spaces on the disk can
> feel very spiffy indeed even compared to one that merely drops KAIO and
raw.
A dangerous analogy, the formula 1 one. An F1 Car is made to last a
weekend - used to be a race - and to be rebuilt after that. This is not a
desirable* thing in a database. Robustness and reliability are important as
well as performance - probably more so.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
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*actually it is desirable in one situation - when running a TPC or similar
benchmark. Again you engineer the product to last pretty much for the life
of the performance test and sacrifice everything else for speed.
Received on Thu Apr 15 2004 - 00:50:50 CDT
