Yup, they're basically free. I've never figured why some "engineers" what to
spend a zillion man hours to save 1 meg in free disk storage ! Doesn't make
and sense to me ;)

Best regards,
Fred Wilson
SE, Bell & Howell
fred.wilson@...



-----Original Message-----
From: Ann W. Harrison [mailto:aharrison@...]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:03 PM
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ib-support] Fw: What's New In InterBase 7


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
www.ibphoenix.com
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