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dgk42
14y ago
We employ a technique similar to that of Obj-C in our memory handler implementation. You attach objects not to a parent object, but to a generation. We have 4 a-priori-specified generations per node (2 of them are stubborn and die during th
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It has to do with semantics and the way you view your data. SQL is not a Turing-complete language (without abusing it!) and represents a subset of Relational Algebra. For us, relations might seem to resemble these of an RDBMS at first sight
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Cache misses are not compared to initializing the lisp engine. So, we don't worry so much about them. Also, since the data organization is up to us, we touch only what is necessary (well, almost! We are talking about fine-grained locking he