Thanks Kiran for posting our off line conversations here.

Alex

On Feb 11, 2008 3:17 PM, Kiran Ayyagari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> hi Guys,
>
>    During a discussion with Alex it was understood that implementing a
> linked
>    splay tree for duplicate key cursor may not result in any
> performance gain.
>
>    When we perform lookups on the splay tree (kept in memory after
> fetching the
>    serialized version )  its structure changes due to splaying.
>
>    This changed structure will be discarded without writing back to the
> disk to
>    eliminate the write cost. This way it will not help us in any form
> to get the amortized
>    time benefits.
>
>    So we are thinking of using some kind of btree for the actual
> implementation.
>
>  Thoughts?
>
> - Kiran Ayyagari
>
>

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