Hi,

>> Got it - babelfish and I speak Russian fluently... :)
>
> Martijn, it's not Russian, it's Olegish :) Russian programmer's
>slang generously spiced with jokes.

Hmmm, I doubt it if babelfish can translate that :)

>> ... what is the word
>> on this version anyway, where's it going? (can't figure out the main
>> changes, seems that the index tree has been changed too?)
>
> As far as I know (I don't approve Oleg Ivanov's (nick LOA) and
>Alexey Karyakin's separatism and don't use Win servers) it's improved
>with some own ideas and ASM implementation instead C Win builds. They
>watch changes in FB main tree and combine them into own code when them
>does'nt conflict with their ideas. Some new indexes on system tables
>which significantly improve perfomance, experiments with data
>compression and threads control, XNET reanimation, access to gdb via
>only one file handle for Super. New ODS was tried but temporary rolled
>back due to compatibility with FB. Seems index tree was'nt changed,
>pages management bringed to use balanced b-tree. Perhaps I missed
>something, I did'nt tried it in practice, just participated in
>discussions about it and mainly of "political" kind as opponent of
>separatism, unfortunately without success, there are some reasons for
>it.

So you don't have any idea where this is going? Are they planning
on releasing it to the general public or will this be a Russian
only or close-friends only version?


Martijn Tonies
InterBase Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase and Firebird
http://www.interbaseworkbench.com


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