when does dat.haus data on disk?

[okdistribute]

Right now, is all data is stored on disk that is being served? It might be nice to able to use dat.haus as a pass-through for data sometimes, by using memdb or something like that.

[juliangruber]

i was thinking about that as well, using a memory store. Then I wouldn't use nodejs though, rather redis or memcache or something written in go. JavaScript isn't made for storing a lot of stuff in memory unfortunately.

I think storing on disk is a less troublesome alternative to storing on memory right now, but @mafintosh feel free to correct me.

[mafintosh]

@juliangruber yea node is not the best at that. we could however create a native binding for a super efficient memory store. the interface is pretty straight forward, just read(offset, length) and write(offset, buf)

[juliangruber]

agreed!

[juliangruber]

actually, we should be able to just use node's Buffer API for this, since buffers are already stored outside of the JS heap and we can know there size to the byte.

[mafintosh]

i already have this actually (forgot lol). https://github.com/mafintosh/random-access-memory