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[Kenneth Downs]

I have actually seen it in several cases, and it took me by surprise.  I 
have been meaning to do some tests one of these days....

David Krings wrote:
> John Campbell wrote:
>>> Is there anything drastically flawed with my approach?
>>>
>>
>> Since you understand the pitfalls of your approach and choose to do it
>> that way it is not a problem.  You are also using sessions to prevent
>> repeated hits to the database for "performance reasons".  Don't do
>> that. It typically makes performance worse because session data must
>> be serialized and written to disk on every request even if the data
>> doesn't change.
>
> So you are saying that a database access is faster than a file access? 
> I find that hard to believe, but do not have any evidence of the 
> contrary.
>
> David
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