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		jononor on Feb 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many small queries are efficient in SQLite It is still IPC (inter-process communication) even though it wont go over any network. Probably still order of magnitude more overhead than a function call, but quite possibly it will be acceptable.

unnouinceput on Feb 16, 2021 [–]

None is stopping you to write a PGSQL driver that uses memory-mapped files and then your calls are as fast as a function call.

Like I said, it all depends on the driver.

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