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<HR><H2>Re: A couple simple questions (hopefully)</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tue May 30 16:04:36 2000
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 13:50:55 -0600
From: Brandon Gillespie &lt;brandon@roguetrader.com&gt;
To: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: &lt;4.3.0.20000530122925.00def750@taller.eng.sun.com&gt;; from Jeff Kesselman on Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:29:54PM -0700
Reply-To: coldstuff@cold.org


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On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:29:54PM -0700, Jeff Kesselman wrote:
&gt; At 03:37 PM 5/30/00 -0300, you wrote:
&gt; &gt;On Tue, 30 May 2000, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
&gt; &gt; &gt; Because objects are inherently persistent in ColdC, they also have a
&gt; &gt; &gt; unique identifier.  This means you can theoretically run out of
&gt; &gt; &gt; identifiers since it is a signed 32bit number.
&gt;=20
&gt; Um. I ASSUMED destroyed IDs are eventually reclaimed.
&gt;=20
&gt; is this not true? Does the DB NEVER compact?

Not during run-time, but you can compact it by going through a process
of decompiling to a textdump with the -# option (to not print
objnums) then recompiling back to a binarydb.

-Brandon

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