On 5/22/06, Jose <jmalv04@gmail.com> wrote:
I am very interested in using your library and I hope is included in Boost soon.
Very pleased to hear that !
Some comments I have related to what has been discussed in this thread:
* It should be clearly stated in the docs that the performance gain is by using MMF (not RAF) which was not clear when I looked at the docs
Sure.
* Concurrent access - I think this is a key feature. Supporting regular files will be good for this as you can support easily concurrent access via locking at the expense of performance
Yes, seems a lot of people would like this. Regular files will be supported.
* Large file support - A practical approach to this would be to limit the support to 64-bit systems, which are starting to be very common and in which you don't have mmap issues. Would this be a good idea ?
This would be an easy way; but 32-bit systems are still going to be around for years.
* Do you also plan to support what's described in Yao's paper "efficient locking for concurrent operations on b-trees"
will be decided soon -- Svyatoslav Trukhanov, Oleksii Ursulenko