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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: Zero-length structures and pointer comparisons
- Message-ID: <9235622.25587@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Dec8.143504.5590@jyu.fi> <5343@holden.lulea.trab.se>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:01:23 GMT
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- jbn@lulea.trab.se (Johan Bengtsson) writes:
-
- >Markku Sakkinen (sakkinen@jyu.fi) wrote:
- >: BTW, actually total order is
- >: a simple thing within an OODB _because_ the identity of each object
- >: is assured not to change.
- >
- >It would impose severe restrictions on how the virtual address space
- >could be used though. The OODBMS may end up in a situation where
- >it can't get a persistent object into memory, not because it has used up
- >all virtual memory addresses, but because all unused virtual memory
- >adresses would violate the total ordering property.
-
- I thought that the idea was that for OODBMSs, you DON'T compare virtual
- addresses for pointers to persistent objects, instead you compare the object
- ids. Maybe someone could explain the problems in a little more detail?
-
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