File store (was Re: Salutations)

[Steve Greenland]

On 12-Dec-00, 11:35 (CST), Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> wrote: 
> Unfortunately I'm not convinced it completely solves the problem.  The
> problem with any checkpointing is that if any transaction changes
> before the checkpoint, then you have to modify all checkpoints that
> have occurred after the transaction.

Yes. As someone else pointed out, though, this is probably not a common
case, and if it takes a few seconds, that's not a big deal. On the other
hand, calc'ing/displaying the current balance is very common, and worth
optimizing.

steve

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