On: How SQLite Is Tested

[jrockway]

I assume it doesn't handle it as well as custom hand-tuned code.

I've also never used SQLite on an embedded system.

[tlrobinson → jrockway]

iPhone applications use SQLite extensively. But I guess cell phones like iPhone are no longer really "embedded systems"

[jrockway → tlrobinson]

What I meant by that comment was, "If I were writing a database, I would avoid C and save myself hundreds of thousands of lines of test code... at the cost of not working well under low-memory conditions." Obviously, it is very useful that there is a public-domain SQL database that works under these conditions, but using C came at a (IMHO, unreasonably high) cost.