Espen Skoglund wrote:
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For a while, I had them convinced that they wanted it. Then they
looked at the required interaction with the rest of the mapping
database and decided that it would be very difficult to add to
their existing system.
I don't really understand that. In my understanding copying sth. to
s.o. means mapping it from the parent. So if you have
On paper it is really easy, yes. It all boils down to how easy it is
to find your parent. Depending on your particular implementation of
the mapping databse this might be a really expensive and complex
operation.
[Assuming the mdb is implement as a down-pointer-only tree]
Was it that expensive to add up pointers?
eSk
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