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, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,229ea0001655d6a2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Generic Package Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <1177539306.952515.222940@s33g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1177601484.444701.171560@r35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1177672290.8055.6.camel@localhost> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:34:00 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Apr 2007 22:33:45 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 04c3dbdc.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=8330l35Q>oOX36K@\WTHGJA9EHlD;3YcB4Fo<]lROoRA8kFE;]M X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15365 Date: 2007-04-27T22:33:45+02:00 List-Id: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:44:13 +0100, Simon Wright wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > >> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:11:30 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > >>> Any real table in an existing computer has a "natural" >>> ordering suitable for iterating an operation for all >>> elements: data in a real computer can be uniquely identified. >> >> No this is wrong even on a real computer. The DB engine could >> shuffle the rows asynchronously to your application. There could be >> other applications playing with the table. The table might spread >> over memories of several computers and different levels cashes. You >> have to bring transactions, replications and other synchronizing >> stuff to make any sense out of "natural order." > > Just using ordered containers is hardly going to stop you needing to > deal with locking! In some sense it would. Provided it existed unconditionally, you would not need to lock anything. Because otherwise any relevant change would destroy the order in contradiction to the premise. Obviously you don't need to lock if possible changes wouldn't affect the order. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de