Quote from: John Smith on July 21, 2011, 05:36:43 AM

I wonder here, what is the advantage to decomposing the scripts into separate database rows, instead of storing it as a binary blob?

I mean, the most common operation is "fetch the entire script and execute the opcodes". By decomposing the data structure this deep this becomes a more expensive query.

For a node, maybe. What about for data processing? Say you just want to quickly find all scripts with the same destination address. The performance difference will be negligible for the amount of flexibility gained. Returning data like this is what RDBMS' are optimized for.