From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,330ec86e1824a689 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-28 10:15:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uunet!sea.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool0902.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:15:42 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Run-Time Type Assignment References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1030554868.926487@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@mosquito.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1030554870 22846 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28513 Date: 2002-08-28T13:15:42-04:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > I am now trying to create a binary file for my work on CytometryML. > CytometryML is a collection of XML schemas that will be used for > cytometry data. Isn't XML a text format? Why are you creating a binary file? > The maximum number of records that I have specified for CytometryML > is two billion. Are you making the specification, or is this the specification you have been given? Are the records so interlinked that you must process all of them at once? > Two possible approaches for the creation of this record Creation of what record? Didn't you say that the file of data already exists? Are you trying to read in the data to process it? What is the format of the data in the file? This all seems very confusing to me. I don't think you have correctly explained what it is that you need. > My application may have some generality because this type of type > assignment (for want of a better term) conceivably could be used for > spreadsheets and data bases. What in the world does this mean? > This is not a recommendation. Or this?