On 23 June 2011 03:29, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > In today's operating systems, whether something is in a file or in memory > is a boundary that might easily get blurred. It would be kind of strange if > one algorithm that chooses to build a giant data structure in memory (using, > for example, a lot of swap space) would be treated differently from another > algorithm that does exactly the same, but writes its data out to a temporary > file (which might be a database). >
I don't think it would be treated differently, because I believe that an in-memory data structure would still be a database (in the ODbL and database right sense of "database"). I don't see how the storage mechanism makes a difference. -- James
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