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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-01 18:11:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!msunews!not-for-mail From: "Chad R. Meiners" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 21:09:16 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <9ms0gg$2ceu$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <3B8FD027.1AFB483@san.rr.com> <3b913376.333516@news.cis.dfn.de> Reply-To: "Chad R. Meiners" NNTP-Posting-Host: arctic.cse.msu.edu X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12631 Date: 2001-09-01T21:09:16-04:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message news:3b913376.333516@news.cis.dfn.de... > > Amen. > > I would like to add, why to have files at all? There should be only > objects allocated in one big virtual memory chunk. 64-bit address > space allows to address every objects in every computer of the world. > There should be no I/O, only memory mapping. > > Regards, > Dmitry Kazakov So once the data collections get larger than available RAM, the sorting algorithms suffer?