Re: Possible bridges between OO programming proponents and relational model

"J M Davitt" <jdavitt_at_aeneas.net> wrote in message news:H6Ggg.54099$P2.44569_at_tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...

> As for "OO in-memory mechanisms," I think that such storage schemes
> should be described a one-dimensional, don't you?. After all, each
> instance is allocated a bunch of bits from a linear address space.
> Just because it's apparently a simple matter to pass an address
> around doesn't mean that the content of all addresses are easily
> accessed. MIPS chips and Intel chips have very different techniques
> for managing large memory fields. But that fact doesn't have anything
> to do with OO concepts, does it? Well, neither does the choice of
> storage technique have anything to do with relational concepts or SQL.

I remember that the organization of the video memory of sinclair spectrum home computers was very interesting and very linear. :-) Received on Tue Jun 06 2006 - 04:04:04 CDT