For my part the "for the ages" implementation of this function is required.  I 
am thinking about Brewer's Theorem and other related "omitted" or 
non-functional values or quality control criteria (QCC) in related to this 
functionality.  You have chosen your target well, I believe.

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Topia Technology, Inc
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On Dec 14, 2010, at 12:18 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:

> On 12/13/2010 11:36 PM, MICHAEL MCGRADY wrote:
>> I would say that in addition to just be a fast data structure the
>> data structure must be fast and accommodate synchronous and
>> asynchronous backups, partitions, and transactions.
> 
> How much of that should be in the bottom layer? As far as I can tell,
> the general design of outrigger is to implement features such as
> transactions on top of FastList, treating it as a fast, simple
> primitive. Remember I'm not trying to create the list data structure for
> the ages, just something that I can make work and that does the same job
> as FastList.
> 
> Patricia

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