Binary Files vs INI Files

Nope.

so is this your way of sayig bin files are better than ini files?

teach us oh mighty superhero haydz

i kinda expected that lol

the binary win! :P

Haydz, you just made people belive the binary itself are good to use. What he meant was the binary files, such as cq_action etc etc etc..

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Originally Posted by EmmeTheCoder Haydz, you just made people belive the binary itself are good to use. What he meant was the binary files, such as cq_action etc etc etc..

QFT

Most people on epvp that see binary think about the TQ bins.

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Originally Posted by © Haydz Im not saying anything, but imo yes they are :)

It's not opinion that binary files are grossly better for performance, It's hard fact. Are you trying to teach us something new? Because this is the basic of the basic.

Whether binary files are "better" is debatable though. Performance isn't everything. With binary files, you are required to write format specific code, and provide editors for modifying any data. That problem isn't as apparent with text files.

Databases are format-independent binary files which offer the both of best. There isn't much to debate here: Databases are the superior choice.

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Originally Posted by © Haydz People would never be loading this amount of data at once, unless your being stupid and loading ALL this data to an array, when it should be inline.

Compare the speed of reading through the entire contents of a file held in memory and one held on your hard drive before you make such ridiculous remarks. If you're going to access any piece of data quickly, or multiple times, it should be placed into memory when the application starts. Provided you have enough memory that your application isn't thrashing, load as much as you can into it. (Memory is cheap, you shouldn't be worrying if your server uses up a gig or few of it.) If you have several gigs of data and holding it in memory is out of the question, you should be using an SSD.

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Originally Posted by unknownone It's not opinion that binary files are grossly better for performance, It's hard fact. Are you trying to teach us something new? Because this is the basic of the basic. I am merely informing people who use INI databases, how the speed compares to Binaries (Memory is cheap Memory is not neccesarily cheap, for the current conquer communities average age of 15, your looking at $20 per 1g stick of memory.

Edit (2012): I shall maintain the record of this post and thread as a reminder of how much of an idiot I have been, but I would just like to clarify that upon looking at some of my post history I have realized just how foolish I was back then, hah.

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Originally Posted by © Haydz Once again, i am merely informing people of the differences in speed.

I run my servar on a 386~394MB (cba to check) RAM, n000bbbbzzzz (though I agree with unknownone for the most part).

Let me clarify to all those "special" people out there.
This has NOTHING to do with the TQ Binaries.

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Originally Posted by kinshi88 Let me clarify to all those "special" people out there. This has NOTHING to do with the TQ Binaries.

They won't read it if you put that on the 2nd page...
Just edit the 1st post.

eye r nop, i r runn tq binaris.