Subject RE: [ib-support] Fw: What's New In InterBase 7
Author Ann W. Harrison
At 10:57 AM 10/30/2002 -0500, pschmidt@... wrote:
> > Borland is using an INT for storage, Firebird will likely use a
> > SmallInt.
> >
>
>It would be really nice if both used a packed set of 1 bit fields, so a
>32bit int would
>contain up to 32 booleans. However this might be a lot of work,
>especially if all of
>the pseudo booleans in the system tables were changed to real booleans.

Has anyone checked disk prices in the last decade or so?


Regards,

Ann
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