[Xapian-devel] InMemory backend

[James Aylett]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:28:58AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:

> It is useful to be able to open small temporary databases in memory,
> but I think from a performance and from a code maintenance point of
> view we'd be better off providing an alternative lower level for
> quartz which uses memory instead of disk to store the Btree.  Or
> perhaps replaces the Btree with a suitable map<>, but I think
> a lower level is more appropriate.

At what layer does Quartz start caring about files? Immediately above
the btree manager, or is there still a higher mechanism that abstracts
that?

J

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