[sldev] Cache politics: performance vs obfuscation

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-06-09, at 02:22, Dale Mahalko wrote:
> A move to a local MySQL database

God no.

sqlite, please. Without all the MySQL "I'm pretending to be a real  
database engine" overhead.

But preserving the local obfuscation would still be easy, simply by  
storing the raw bitmaps rather than any encoded form, and storing  
caching metadata in binary at the beginning of the file instead of in  
filesystem datestamps and extensions. Plus there's no reason to use  
the raw UUID. XORING it with "Please don't steal Mac OS X"... I mean  
"Please don't steal this asset"... would do.