Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11067648-20130904033158/@comment-14093408-20130904141837

I don't agree with you Ranoake, Computer Science 101 is to program applications in a way that scalability of the database to a certain point has no impact whatsoever on performance of said application.

Most of the successful applications and programs are working with databases several times bigger than they were first intend to be, and had performance been an issue they would not have remained successful.

Sorting algorithms do have performance issues when the amount of data is increased, of course, but we are not talking about sorting a table of 10^6 entries with 100 attributes. This is going from 200 to lets say 2^9 (512)... not something a well made software would not be able to afford. But I could be mistaken, of course, I got my degree too long ago and changed careers.