[erlang-questions] [ANN] LETS - LevelDB-based Erlang Term Storage v0.5.3

[Ciprian Dorin Craciun]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:58, Joseph Norton <norton@REDACTED> wrote:
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> Ciprian -
>
> Yes, your guess is correct.
>
> Joseph Norton
> norton@REDACTED


    :D, but then the second question appears:
    * does this affect the performance in any way? (from what I've
seen in their code, they also use some kind of iterator to implement
`Get`;)
    * is there a reason not to use the `std::string`? (is it
inefficient from the C++ point of view, or it is when combined with
Erlang?)

    I'm not in any way criticizing your work (actually when I've
studied the LevelDB code I also thought to use the iterator for
reads).

    I just want to learn from your experience by not making the same
mistake twice. :)

    Thanks,
    Ciprian.


> On Nov 21, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
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>>    I've thrown a quick look over your code
>> `https://github.com/norton/lets/blob/master/c_src/lets_nif.cc` -- as I
>> also want to make a LevelDB binding, but in Go, and I wanted to see
>> how you did it -- and I was curios about one thing: why you never use
>> `db->Get` but always for read operations you use
>> `db->NewIterator(...)`? (I guess it's because it doesn't return a
>> `Slice` but a `std::string`?)