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<HR><H2>Re: A couple simple questions (hopefully)</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tue May 30 15:30:30 2000
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:29:54 -0700
To: coldstuff@cold.org
From: Jeff Kesselman &lt;Jeffrey.Kesselman@eng.sun.com&gt;
In-Reply-To: &lt;00053015412805.19100@devil&gt;
Reply-To: coldstuff@cold.org

At 03:37 PM 5/30/00 -0300, you wrote:
&gt;On Tue, 30 May 2000, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
&gt; &gt; Because objects are inherently persistent in ColdC, they also have a
&gt; &gt; unique identifier.  This means you can theoretically run out of
&gt; &gt; identifiers since it is a signed 32bit number.

Um. I ASSUMED destroyed IDs are eventually reclaimed.

is this not true? Does the DB NEVER compact?

JK



Jeff Kesselman
Performance Engineer
Sun/Java Software
Co-author of Java(tm) Platform Performance
ISBN: 0-201-70969-4

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