Actually, no. Binary trees are something quite different (and
generally more familiar).
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On Aug 23, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Nancy Anthracite wrote:
B, I believe, is for Binary.
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 06:11 pm, Gregory Woodhouse wrote:
I think Kevin was asking whether or not strings are null terminated.
I know nothing about the GT.M source, but as a general sort answer:
Databases don't typically store data in a "packed" format (like the
run-time heap), but instead storage is allocated in fixed size
chunks, which are then typically organized into a structure called a
B-tree. This makes it possible to add and delete records (nodes) or
to modify the size of an existing node without having to drastically
modify the entire structure. (So far as I know, the origin of the
term B-tree is unknown, but I like to think of them as "bushy"
trees.)
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