Re: [Tutor] Which is better in principle: to store (in file) calculated data or to re-calculate it upon restarting program?

2019-07-31 Thread Chris Roy-Smith
On 31/7/19 2:21 am, boB Stepp wrote: I have been using various iterations of a solitaire scorekeeper program to explore different programming thoughts. In my latest musings I am wondering about -- in general -- whether it is best to store calculated data values in a file and reload these values,

Re: [Tutor] Which is better in principle: to store (in file) calculated data or to re-calculate it upon restarting program?

2019-07-31 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 31/07/2019 03:02, boB Stepp wrote: > preceding scores plus the current one. If the data in the file > somehow got mangled, it would be an extraordinary coincidence for > every row to yield a correct total score if that total score was > recalculated from the corrupted data. True but the likel