[squeak-dev] Re: MySQL question?
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Jan 12 22:29:47 UTC 2010
Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> The biggest problem I found with the ODBC driver for Squeak is that it
> uses FFI and it locks the complete VM during the function invocation. In
> ODBC, queries are synchronous, so, if you have a website with
> multipleusers, and someone sends a query, it is likely the complete vm
> will be locked until it finishes.
I've been wondering about that. It says here
(http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6129):
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OpenDBX and FFI
You can have a common problem which is that SqueakDBX, trough FFI...
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This implies you're using FFI to talk to OpenDBX.
How's that different from ODBC?
Cheers,
- Andreas
>
> You can see what I am talking about in my slides:
> http://www.slideshare.net/esug/squeak-dbx
>
> There I compare both drivers. I am not an ODBC expert, so if someone
> think that that's incorrect, please let me know.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mariano
>
> 2010/1/12 Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez <miguel.coba at gmail.com
> <mailto:miguel.coba at gmail.com>>
>
> El mar, 12-01-2010 a las 15:49 -0500, John Chludzinski escribió:
> > Took your all’s advice and switched to the ODBC driver. Works well !
> > Thanks. ---John
>
> Well, is your codebase but I would like to know why SqueakDBX isn't good
> enough for you. AFAICT SqueakDBX is being maintained currently. Haven't
> seen much about ODBC in this lists in the past 3 years.
>
> Anyway, if it fits to your project then that's is enough.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Miguel Cobá
> http://miguel.leugim.com.mx
>
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