On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 07:39:49AM -0700, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> Ah, I see. So the points is that checking the integrity between
> two complete data sets can become a preformace killer.
Not necessarily. More exactly, building a support system that can
check such integrity in a completely general way, such that it could
be used for any arbitrary data, is a hard problem that might destroy
performance. It's also a pretty exotic feature. You might want to
ask on the -hackers list for more detail, though.
A
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