Probably not of much value to ask unless you are a GT.M internals developer - details are in the source code. As a gross simplification (along the lines of saying that living things are made up of cells), GT.M stores the length and actual value of each string. But there are all sorts of optimizations, including key compression when stored in the database.
-- Bhaskar On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:22 -0500, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > So Bhaskar, is of any value to ask how the data is stored behind the > scenes? I was worried that the strings were null-terminated etc and > that there might be some binary data that would crash GT.M. when > storing is in a global value. > > I'm glad to hear that is not the case. > > Kevin ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
