I have been thinking about new backend possibilities, and would like to know your opinion.
Tokyo Cabinet would require us to write a FFI for it. I don't know what it does to prevent deadlocks; probably nothing, as I have looked at its B tree code and have found just mutexes without any special handling whatsoever. Using Tokyo Tyrant, a server interface to a TC db, would have the same locking problems (if there are any, I'm going to ask the author for more clarification), a slight performance hit and possibly a less convoluted glueing code than the FFI solution. Plus, one could offload the storage to another machine, of course. Then there would be the possibility of using the B+Trees provided by CL-CONTAINERS. This would be a Lisp base upon which one could build upon, layering transactions and file storage above. What do you think? Leslie _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
