> Is there any reason why LMS is using such an old SQLite version, 3.7.7.1
> which dates back to 2011.
There are many potential reasons. Call it laziness, or "never touch a
running system", or lack of priorities, premature optimization, lack of
time...
Updating the library for all platforms is virtually impossible. Dealing
with the potential issues of running different versions on different
platforms might lead to some unwanted decisions (eg. rollback, drop
support for some platforms etc.) and certainly would consume
considerable amounts of time. Which probably would better be spent
elsewhere.
Maybe there just isn't any compelling reason to update.
> Looking through the SQLite release log there seem to be pretty
> impressive performance gains made over the years so just wondering why
> this hasn't been rolled into LMS. (DBD-SQLite-1.58 released March
> 2018)
Did you carefully read where those improvements would apply? Does it
apply to LMS? Did you confirm it's any faster at all? And where do you
see the database as the bottleneck, btw?
I'd be happy to see a thorough comparison of current LMS and LMS on
latest SQLite, scanning libraries of various sizes (5k, 30k, 100k) on
various platforms (Pi, Mac, Windows, desktop Linux). Or at least one of
them showing that "impressive performance gain". What would you measure?
Scanning time? Browsing performance? Time to playback?
> PS Can we have the old forum software back.. thanks :p
Can it get any older?... it's vbulletin 4, announced in 2009. Its
successor v5 was announced in 2012. We never updated beyond security
updates.
--
Michael
> which dates back to 2011.
There are many potential reasons. Call it laziness, or "never touch a
running system", or lack of priorities, premature optimization, lack of
time...
Updating the library for all platforms is virtually impossible. Dealing
with the potential issues of running different versions on different
platforms might lead to some unwanted decisions (eg. rollback, drop
support for some platforms etc.) and certainly would consume
considerable amounts of time. Which probably would better be spent
elsewhere.
Maybe there just isn't any compelling reason to update.
> Looking through the SQLite release log there seem to be pretty
> impressive performance gains made over the years so just wondering why
> this hasn't been rolled into LMS. (DBD-SQLite-1.58 released March
> 2018)
Did you carefully read where those improvements would apply? Does it
apply to LMS? Did you confirm it's any faster at all? And where do you
see the database as the bottleneck, btw?
I'd be happy to see a thorough comparison of current LMS and LMS on
latest SQLite, scanning libraries of various sizes (5k, 30k, 100k) on
various platforms (Pi, Mac, Windows, desktop Linux). Or at least one of
them showing that "impressive performance gain". What would you measure?
Scanning time? Browsing performance? Time to playback?
> PS Can we have the old forum software back.. thanks :p
Can it get any older?... it's vbulletin 4, announced in 2009. Its
successor v5 was announced in 2012. We never updated beyond security
updates.
--
Michael