On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Ian Eslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 7, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Alex Mizrahi wrote: > >> IE> Given that in Elephant, the cost of a btree instance is negligable, >> >> it postmodern backend each btree is backed by a database table, >> so i think it's not that negligable there.. > > Ah, I think the CL-SQL and BDB have different performance implications then. > What is the purpose of doing it this way? Are you specializing the table > on the type of the keys in some way?
The table is the closest thing to a btree structure in an sql database. For example cursor operations are done on table. That is the idea of using tables as btrees. /Henrik _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
