[Pdx-pm] Big tied arrays

Marvin Humphrey marvin at rectangular.com
Mon Jun 13 15:48:08 PDT 2005


On Jun 13, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:41:12AM -0700, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
>
>> I've got a tied array class that can grow to a very large size (using
>> multiple files) mostly written.  Am I reinventing the wheel?  I
>> haven't tracked anything like it down on CPAN so far.  In a nutshell,
>> the scheme uses index files which store lookup data (filenum, offset,
>> length) against the data files, allowing storage of arbitrary
>> content.  Deletions don't disappear from the data files unless you
>> optimize the whole thing.
>>
>> The DB_RECNO option from DB_File uses a single-byte record separator,
>> so that's out.  Anything else?
>>
>
> Why do the details of the record separator, a purely internal detail,
> matter?
>
>
> --  
> Michael G Schwern     schwern at pobox.com     http://www.pobox.com/ 
> ~schwern
> You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the
> implementation and then relied upon it.
>     -- tchrist in <31832.969261130 at chthon>
>
>

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/



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