Re: ADT Lib: Persistence

[Peter Froehlich <pfroehli@ics.uci.edu>]

Hi all!

At 9:06 PM +0200 6/13/98, Michael van Acken wrote:

>Still missing: resetting of `Object.mark' fields after a `Disconnect'.
>Now an object can only be stored in a single session, attaching a
>second writer and saving the same object again will fail.
>
>I intend to solve this problem by removing the field `Object.mark'
>altogether, and replace it in the externalization algorithm with a
>separate lookup table.

   Interesting again! I did the same in NCL. This was one of the cases
where I needed a "low level" container class (hashtable) because I couldn't
use the "high level" one (recursive since that one could be stored, and not
as efficient of course). Well... :-)

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