Re: [elephant-devel] Re: Lisp backend

2008-03-02 Thread Ian Eslick
It's easy enough to find a reference implementation of a B+Tree and re-implement it; as long as we've thought through all the tradeoffs (I think Henrik made this point). Speaking of which, I think the Right Thing is developing the B+Tree library separately from Elephant, so others will be able t

[elephant-devel] Re: Lisp backend

2008-03-02 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> The quad-tree is definitely not a B+Tree, nor one that solves any of > the issues of writing to disk. Well, so much for superficial research. Sorry. > It's easy enough to find a reference > implementation of a B+Tree and re-implement it; as long as we've > thought through all the tradeoffs (I