Roman Rokytskyy wrote:

>>Practically speaking, I'd like to see both execution nodes and RSBs
>>turned into proper type hierarchies before we do any major extensions.
>>Both are currently rather messy, to say the least. I think that
>>encapsulating those two systems before extending them will be about
>>half the work of extending them then encapsulating, and will result in
>>a much simpler, smaller system.
>>
>>
>
>If you accept solving current architectural issues module by module
>before changing that very module, and not first solving _all_
>architectural issues in the whole engine and only then allow
>extensions, then I support you with both hands.
>
>

I want to take it mechanism by mechanism. The three primary engine
execution mechanisms (statement execution, expression evaluation, and
record streams) are high priority but outside the scope of Vulcan. The
basic idea is to reduce very complex problems into a system of very
simple solutions.

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Jim Starkey
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