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sid0 on March 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hey Apple, Please Be Nice and Share MacRuby

I know Firefox bundles its own sqlite on OS X because the native sqlite is far too buggy.

tptacek on March 7, 2011 [–]

For a long time (maybe even today), the system sqlite3 did a full filesystem sync every time you did an UPDATE.

calloc on March 8, 2011 | [–]

As is required to make sure that there is no data loss. Yes, it is a performance loss as well, but it makes it much better with regard to possible crash scenarios.

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