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From: cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Database toolkits
Summary: upgrade?
Keywords: Resource Manager, Databases
Message-ID: <1173@pur-phy>
Date: 2 Jun 88 21:28:31 GMT
References: <17474@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <11434@apple.Apple.Com>
Organization: Purdue Univ. Phys Dept, W.Lafayette, IN
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In article <11434@apple.Apple.Com>, dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) writes:
> Using the Resource Manager for a database manager is *** NOT RECOMMENDED
> **. PERIOD.
> 
> The Resource Manager is moderately good at doing what is was designed to
> do: handle a few dozen MENUs, DLOGs, CODE segments, etc.  The Resource
> Manager was speeded up quite a bit from the 64K ROMs to the 128K ROMs,
> but it still is largely a linear critter.  Binary trees and the like are
> definitely needed for writing good database stuff, and the Resource
> Manager simply doesn't do it.

Actually, an upgrade to the Resource Manager so that it is faster, can
handle larger numbers of resources, simultaneous access over a
network, etc., is very high on my wish list.  It seems this would
solve a number of difficulties in one swell foop (slow Desktop file
access, using a different mechanism for accessing large #'s of
"resources", etc.).  It seems that this should be looked at while the
IAC and IPC stuff is being worked on.  Maybe a letter campaign to
Apple would help :-).

Charlie Allen			cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu