Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/31/04 12:01 AM, Matthew Jew at mjew at icnc.com wrote:

Hi Mathew?

> 1. Support for non-cooperative threads (unix style) without having
>   to use a mutex for the entire engine.

Yes, kernel now is targeted only on preemptive Oses
    OS X, Windows, Linux.
 
So this is our target

> 2. The ability to force the Valentina engine to open a DB read-only
>   so multiple apps can share a single read-only DB.

Mathew,

This works in 1.x far far ago.

IF you mark db files as READ ONLY in Windows or Finder,
Then Valentina open them in shared mode, but not in exclusive mode.


> 3. More efficient use of disk space for variable length data.

Hmm. What problems you see now?
I believe there is no to improve this issue.

Do you talk about VarChar ?


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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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