RE: [UM1-coders] Object Store

[Adrian S. J. <AS...@pa...>]

> From: Peter Crowther [mailto:pet...@ne...]
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> > From: J.P. King [mailto:jp...@he...]
> > Would it be feasible to create an object store, and detach=20
> > the code engine from the object store engine?
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> Yes.
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> > I personally am convinced that this would be a technically=20
> good thing
> > to do (given an object store), but I don't know how the game engine
> > accesses the objects - is it directly, or is there an=20
> interface layer
> > which can be mangled?
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> The database is an object with operator[] defined,=20
> specifically so that we
> could do this.

I think the bigger problem is how do we use it? The code wouldn't
be particularly efficient if every access went to an out-of-process
call.

I suppose if we had a write-through cache it wouldn't be too bad.
At least then we'd get semi-fault tolerant data.

We'd need a decent sanity-checker that could fix problems like the
contents lists being mangled due to a crash whilst moving an object.

Adrian.