Atreides_096
Wanderer
Joined: 21 Jan 2005
Posts: 99
Location: Solvang, CA
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 Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:57 am
Alias and Database Question - Multipart
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Hi, this is a multi-part question. I searched for prior database strings, and learned of the 31 item entry limit, so it may be moot, but I think I can work around that.. anyway, here's my questions:
1) I currently have a little over 6500 aliases. My settings file is monstrous, and I get severaly lagged when I try to open the editor or zmud. etc etc etc, I am just wondering if having that many aliases (and adding more every day) could be causing me to have problems with zMUD. I can occasional crashes (access violation errors) in addition to the lag.. and when I open a mud window, or the editor, if I touch any key for the 15 seconds or so it takes to load, zMUD crashes...
So question #1: Would I benefit by reducing the number of aliases I have? Or would it not really matter if the same total amount of text was stored in settings (in databases)?
2) I tested out a system for calling aliases from databases to see if there would be a gain in reducing the # of aliases I had. The system I came up with was thus:
[/code]#ONINPUT {#va variable { %db( @Database, {%1})}
#al alias {<@variable>}
alias}
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This worked decently, although I did have to format my aliases some to remove certain out symbols (such as the @ symbol). But there was a slight hesitation as it wrote the alias.. not major, but noticeable. Throw on top of that the maximum entry limitation (31?) and it was a less than enticing system. On top of that, with that many aliases, I often forget the names of them, and I use an alias to search through them all (though it's a slow search, it's often needed)... I am unsure if there's a method to search through databases similarly?
So question #2(+) is: Did I come up with the most efficient way to extract items from the database into an alias that will send multi-line commands? Is there a faster/better method? A method that would allow me to send @ symbols? And is there any way to search through databases (all databases, for specific text)?
Thanks a lot for your help on this.. also if the answer to #1 is no, then #2 is relatively moot (and I suspect that even if the answer to #1 is yes, the database system is not the best way to go -- perhaps a way to read text files through aliases? Though that doesn't reduce the number of aliases.. hrmmm.. I dunno :P ) but I'd still be curious to see the answer to #2 :P |
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