Re: [Jdbm-general] Re: Jdbm-general digest, Vol 1 #23 - 1 msg

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dhe...@ya... said:
> Is this project active ? I would like to develop some other data
> structures (arrays, sorting, ... ) ... could I expect some help ?

I don't know. I developed JDBM because I dropped the idea and someone else 
said they had a specific use for it, but apart from that I do not know who 
uses it and for what purposes. The functionality I needed in there is there 
and apparently it works fine, that's why I haven't been working on it. You're 
more than welcome to play around, of course.

> First I have a question : do you manage the size of the file when the
> its shrinking (I didn't find a setLength ... is it possible to ass it
> ?) Thanks

No. It is reasonably simple to add it, but I doubt whether it would be 
generally useful. Space typically is released somewhere in the middle of the 
file, and at the moment free blocks aren't even merged together into larger 
free blocks, let alone that free blocks can be moved to the end of the file so 
they can be purged.
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