Re: First Impressions on Using Alphora's Dataphor

From: Nathan Allan <nathan_at_alphora.com>
Date: 29 Aug 2004 11:30:50 -0700
Message-ID: <fedf3d42.0408291030.1641800f_at_posting.google.com>


Peter,

> Why? You only need the operator "same as" (is it "=" or "==" on Alphora?) to
> remove duplicates. I would probably implement duplicate removal using some
> kind of hashing.

The equal operator in Dataphor is "=" (assignment is ":="). Yes, hashing is an excellent duplicate removal mechanism, but thus far Dataphor only uses BTrees (and therefore requires ordering).

Regards,

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Nathan Allan
Alphora
Received on Sun Aug 29 2004 - 20:30:50 CEST

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