# LPMOO Questions

LPCR (slush@oberon.umd.edu)
Thu, 30 Nov 1995 14:24:09 PST

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    On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

    > On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Nate Massey wrote:
    > > > Binary DBs (Which LPMOO uses) are much larger because of their nature.
    > >
    > > What of their nature makes them bigger?  I think that LPMOO should do a
    > > good job of making smaller and better binary databases, even though it
    > > does not.  If someone can explain to me why they are so much bigger I'd
    > > appreciate it.
    >
    > They don't bother to pack data on disk or in mem, and their
    > representations of data structures and the like are more bloated than
    > those which MOO has (actually, its more probable that its bloated simply
    > because its emulating MOO).

    Correct me if my novice programming knowledge is wrong, BUT:
    Binary representation of data will always be larger than ASCII because
    the binary is a straight dump of what was in RAM to disk.  As a result
    all things are expanded.  Dumping to text forces a pack of the data
    because it is stored in ASCII instead of larger sized binary information.