Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: It's just storage

Author:Dave Winer
Posted:5/16/1999; 3:02:57 PM
Topic:Source release of Prefs.UserLand.Com
Msg #:6332 (In response to 6331)
Prev/Next:6331 / 6334

At WWDC I learned that CoreFoundation (one of the C APIs for MacOS X) has built-in support for XML, and that OS X's preferences will be stored in XML format in the user's preferences folder.

That's interesting, but I wonder whether it's better to store the prefs data in a database instead of the file system. I never considered actually storing the user's data in separate files. Maybe they have a very fast file system and a very fast XML parser.

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