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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:50:16 +1100
Subject: Re: Is it more CPU-efficient to read/write config file or read/write sqlite database?
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:
>   + traditionally, sqlite is extreme fsync() happy; forces a disc
>     level flush on each commit - extremely slow on busy databases,
>     not to mention hard of drives

I'd say that's correct behaviour. A commit should be sync'd to disk.
If you don't want it to go to the disk yet, don't commit yet!

ChrisA