Ian Eslick wrote:
You should check out Arthur Lemmon's Rucksack, it's architecture is
much more ZODB like.
A couple of people are also interested in doing an all-lisp data store
for Elephant that gets rid of any license issues. I believe that it
may be possible to make the native solution run faster than BDB. I'm
still stuck on how to perform inexpensive locking or atomic sections
(for lock-free datastructures) without external libraries.
Maybe you can elaborate on the locking problems so the collective genius
can have at them.
A native Lisp data store seems to be a project in the back of the minds
of some developers and list subscribers. I have not gone through the
whole thought experiment myself, but maybe others have. Ian, perhaps
you can give a sketch of the lisp backend you imagine. What's the
general architecture and feature set?
Even if a lisp backend does not crop up for a while, it can't hurt to
share some insights on the eternal mailing list. If something detailed
enough gets posted, perhaps all it will take for a new backend
implementation is a rainy afternoon and a Lisp wizard.
Ian
Red
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