Binary links Re: Question Backlog for Valentina mailing list.

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 11/16/05 11:37 PM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:

>>> 3) Right idea, but if you really want the blazingly fast connect from the
>>> typeCode in the item record to the typeInfo record then use a full Ulong for
>>> the typeCode as an OffsetPtr because Valentina will optimize accesses and be
>>> more efficient using the ObjectPtr than converting from a byte index.
> 
> Now that I understand, and understand why, that performance of a BinaryLink
> is the same as an ObjectPtr I'd probably go this 3rd route.  It would
> require more space for the ObjectPtr than the Byte field, but I'd end up
> with optimal performance for all possible operations.  And when you
> implement BytePtr in Valentina 3 I'll get the wasted space back :)

So it sounds like you going to have Table(s) with less than 255 records ?

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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