On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:52:59PM -0400, Eric E wrote: > One thought I had, and I'd love to hear what people think of this, is to > build a table of storage location numbers that are available for use. > That way the search for new numbers could be pushed off until some > convenient moment well after the user requests them.
That very application is how I heard the idea for the "second method" I sent in another email. In the case I was thinking of, someone used it for room allocation. It worked pretty well, as long as you can tolerate occasional periods where you _do_ have gaps. A -- Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the future this spectacle of the middle classes shocking the avant- garde will probably become the textbook definition of Postmodernism. --Brad Holland ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings