Quote from: misterbigg on March 16, 2016, 03:42:00 PM

Quote from: 2112 on March 13, 2016, 05:16:10 AM

Quote from: misterbigg on March 13, 2016, 04:52:47 AM

Could this be of use? It is designed for high performance and reliability on SSDs
https://github.com/ripple/rippled/tree/develop/src/beast/beast/nudb

It doesn't matter. The real answer is simple: the storage layers (plural!) need to be abstracted. No single engine could meet all needs.

Of course. I did that for my first task at Ripple. You're telling me that Bitcoin Core still has not abstracted the storage layer?

How could I know what they really did? I feel I need to copy-paste something I wrote nearly 4 years ago under "[POLL] Multi-sig or scalability--which is more pressing?".

Quote from: 2112 on July 22, 2012, 07:34:52 PM

Quote from: Gavin Andresen on July 22, 2012, 03:22:10 PM

Gentle reminder to the other bitcoin developers: it is generally best not to feed trolls. Use the ignore button.

If you sit in on a poker game and dont see a sucker, get up. Youre the sucker.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/09/poker-patsy/

Anyway, here's the example of how open source poker is being played.

A whale of a player spends big bucks developing a secret database engine. After 5 years this player takes one of the earliest branches and open sources it. Lets call that branch LevelDB. Suckers jump on it, spend money and energy to develop some basic tools like statistics gathering and query optimization. Then the whale brings the cold deck to the table, which gives him an instant 5 years of leadtime. It looks like that:

Quote from: etotheipi on July 11, 2012, 03:11:27 AM

Then, a month later, the main devs decided to switch to compressed public keys which requires a whole new wallet format for Armory. I was crushed.

I'm no Google insider or anything like that. But I used to knew the people who played with the current Googlers; and I'm broadly familiar with the level of skill involved.

Before you spend to much time at the keyboard and mouse please do see the old David Mamet's movie "House of games". Remember the line:

it was only business nothing personal.