Re: [elephant-devel] Quick hack for lisp backend.

2008-05-16 Thread Henrik Hjelte
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Glenn Tarcea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had never looked at Rucksack before. The code is very well structured > indeed! > > A couple of thoughts: > > 1. Could the Rucksack B-Tree code be separated out, abstracted a little and > put in a separate project (eg,

Re: [elephant-devel] Quick hack for lisp backend.

2008-05-16 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> I had never looked at Rucksack before. The code is very well > structured indeed! Yes, we're lucky. > A couple of thoughts: > > 1. Could the Rucksack B-Tree code be separated out, abstracted a > little and put in a separate project (eg, a cl-btree, or ldb for > example)? This would allow othe

Re: [elephant-devel] Quick hack for lisp backend.

2008-05-15 Thread Glenn Tarcea
I had never looked at Rucksack before. The code is very well structured indeed! A couple of thoughts: 1. Could the Rucksack B-Tree code be separated out, abstracted a little and put in a separate project (eg, a cl-btree, or ldb for example)? This would allow other lisp projects that are

[elephant-devel] Quick hack for lisp backend.

2008-05-14 Thread Ian Eslick
I just spent some time, with the context of this discussion, review the very excellent rucksack code base. I think that most of the facilities needed by our datastore are quite congruent with what Arthur did to implement his system. If we really want to get going fast, we should start by b