This is very interesting. I'm left wondering one important thing
though, how can you choose when you should perform the compacting? I'm
thinking of a threaded newsgroup application, one that's very, very
busy (lots of posts). Eventually you need to compact, but once you
compact, you end up going back to a cascading update when new posts
arrive, so is there some happy middle ground? Or a rough hueristic to
avoid bouncing between compacting & cascading updates?
Received on Mon Sep 23 2002 - 06:00:24 CDT
