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[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/13/05 4:26 PM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:

>>     you can get set as VBitSet, then no order at all.
> 
> Are you sure?  That does not make sense.

I am sure.

Just think. BitSet cannot keep order of records.

This point is mentioned in kernel.pdf

> Surely if I use a VBitSet then the
> results are necessarily ordered by physical recId.

No. you just get set of bits:

            0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1


> That's fundamental to
> the way VBitSet is defined in the kernel documentation.  I may have to
> create and use a Sequencer to iterate over the BitSet and retrieve the
> ordered list of rids, how surely the results represented by a VBitSet are
> ordered.



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