Story Time 1995 computers were slow! 32M of memory was a lot! (typical home PC had 8) 100 Mbps ethernet didn't exist yet The data volume wasn't necessarily smaller 1 second per MB transferred Ate up server memory quickly Rarely needed them all o Fixed locale problem with LANG make variable o Inlined a few calls to bcopy and bcmp for performance o Removed libmisc.a All misc finctions are now in libmsql.a o Fixed problem with field definition info (eg IS_PRI_KEY) being destroyed after a join. o Added a msql_tmpnam() function to get around the NeXT's problem with it's own tmpnam(). ]]> Focus on the Ecosystem LAMP wasn't an accident |ff2233|♥| shared hosting ISPs