Re: [WWdevel] speed of WeBWorK/mysql

[Arnold P. <ap...@ma...>]

At 09:45 PM 3/2/2005, Sam Hathaway wrote:
>On Mar 2, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Arnold Pizer wrote:
>
>>My students in MTH 162 are seeing a significant slowdown in WeBWorK this 
>>semester and I'm not sure what is going on.  I'm wondering if any of you 
>>have seen similar things or if the symptoms bring to mind what the 
>>problem might be.
>
>If someone's feeling ambitious, they could write a custom version of DB.pm 
>that makes SQL calls directly. I think we could get some savings if we 
>avoided the "Schema" abstraction.
>-sam

Hi Sam,

The slow downs I'm seeing are significant --- e.g. 40 times slower than 
what we are used to.  Could the "Schema" abstraction have that great an 
overhead?

Arnie



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