![]() ![]() In all fairness, you have to remember that ACL is decades old, and was born when files analyzed were small, hard disk space was expensive, and using text files to store data was easy and cheap. The developer allegedly said that is due to ACL being text-based, instead of database-based, and that changing ACL to a database-based system would require re-architecting the entire platform. She tried over 100 million records (just once), and no dice. Kimiko said that once she gets around 20 million records, 25 columns across, ACL chugs too slowly. Kimiko and the developer were discussing how ACL can only handle so many records before it chokes, even when using the fastest hard drives, and storing and running ACL and all data files locally (vs. This ACL user, who I will refer to as Kimiko, told me that she had an interesting conversation with someone on the ACL development team. ![]() That is, according to an ACL user who attended the 2018 ACL Connections conference. Rumors have it that ACL will no longer be available on the desktop (laptop, or other local machine) in 5 years.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |