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<blockquote data-quote="seco" data-source="post: 736886" data-attributes="member: 54595">Re: SubtitleDownloader 2.6You are talking about &quot;sites&quot; but is your experience really based only on Bierdopje?In that case I can say that the API for Bierdopje is not very good in performance point of view if compared to other APIs. At this point I don't remember all the details but the Bierdopje API requires doing &quot;extra&quot; requests for simple searches SubtitleDownloader does. Also, the implementation for Bierdopje was not originally made by me but I did some optimizations for it. For these optimizations I had to compile my own version of Bierdopje C# API DLL since there were protected methods in original implementation that I could not use directly for optimization purposes.In general I think the Bierdopje API is too complex for SubtitleDownloader. Caching is not a solution but only a hack to work around the poor API. SubtitleDownloader is intented to be a light-weight library and a database is certainly not going to be part of it. Also if you check the version history of my DLL I have always made optimizations when possible since I don't have any reason to make SubtitleDownloader perform poorly by making extra requests.Of course you are always welcome to post your optimized implementation for any site.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seco, post: 736886, member: 54595"] [b]Re: SubtitleDownloader 2.6[/b] You are talking about "sites" but is your experience really based only on Bierdopje? In that case I can say that the API for Bierdopje is not very good in performance point of view if compared to other APIs. At this point I don't remember all the details but the Bierdopje API requires doing "extra" requests for simple searches SubtitleDownloader does. Also, the implementation for Bierdopje was not originally made by me but I did some optimizations for it. For these optimizations I had to compile my own version of Bierdopje C# API DLL since there were protected methods in original implementation that I could not use directly for optimization purposes. In general I think the Bierdopje API is too complex for SubtitleDownloader. Caching is not a solution but only a hack to work around the poor API. SubtitleDownloader is intented to be a light-weight library and a database is certainly not going to be part of it. Also if you check the version history of my DLL I have always made optimizations when possible since I don't have any reason to make SubtitleDownloader perform poorly by making extra requests. Of course you are always welcome to post your optimized implementation for any site. [/QUOTE]

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