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		jwilliams on March 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why HN is slow lately If you're keen, you can get the source code and take a look: http://www.arclanguage.com/install File system stores aren't that uncommon (aside from the VSAM days, even in RDBMS times+) - it's a common approach for Wiki implementations too.

aaronblohowiak on March 12, 2009 [–]

Also, unless your DB tables are in-memory tables, you are using a very fancy interface to a file system store (that is usually in a nontrivial format.)

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