Hey, > On 22 Mar 2024, at 16:54, Jordan Savoca wrote: > > On Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 9:34 AM MST, Michael Tremer wrote: >> Very cool. >> >> Any reason why you are parsing the text file instead of using our Python bindings? > > No reason beyond a highly unproductive preference for few dependencies > and regrettable fondness for quick parsing scripts. :P > > My production systems are Alpine-based and I tend to use shared systems > for development where there's considerable resistance to installing > dependencies system-wide, so it's usually easiest to use the packages > already available on the system or those easily installable in userland. > >> The text file isn’t flat so you cannot only search to the first match, but since the binary database is organised as a tree, a search will be a lot faster and accurate. The bindings are packaged for Fedora, Debian and a couple of others. >> >> If you want to have all networks that belong to a specific AS, there is a way to search for them having the library walk through the entire tree. That should be super fast. > > This is a good point, though. Ideally I wouldn't be systematically > discarding swaths of announcement information and incurring performance > costs during queries for more or less no reason. Yeah, I have spent a lot of time to make the search really really fast. So it would be good to see that code in hefty use :) >> No worries. As mentioned we had a couple of outstanding issues and I believe that they are now all solved which will help us pave the way for a 1.0 release. >> >> Great to see that the database is making its way into projects everywhere :) > > Definitely! Looking forward to the 1.0 release. :) Thanks again. > > -- > Jordan