carpeaqua by Justin Williams

On switching away from Core Data

Brent Simmons on why he switched from Core Data to raw SQLite:

In Core Data, I had to loop through the list, change the status for each individual item. The list could be up to 10,000 items long. Not a good idea.

This is a very database-y operation. With one query the app can set the status for a whole bunch of items at once, without having to instantiate them as objects: update newsItems set read = 1 where…

Posted on February 27th, 2010 in Linked