Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!lunic.luth.se!eru.mt.luth.se!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!emba-news.uvm.edu!moose.uvm.edu!carroll From: carroll@moose.uvm.edu (Jim Carroll) Subject: How is the OODBMS coming along? Message-ID: <1994Dec15.160304.13595@emba.uvm.edu> Sender: news@emba.uvm.edu Organization: EMBA Computer Facility, University of Vermont X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 16:03:04 GMT Lines: 31 If Beta included an OODBMS that was as good as comparable C++ libraries, but with the elegance of Beta, I would be very interested trying it out... I would also love to see a windows version, but I guess We all have to wait for Microsoft... Would the windows 95 version work with win 3.1 and win32s installed? This is important because people who would buy my software will probably be slow to upgrade to windows95. Why are the executables so large? is it because all sorts of support routines like garbage collection have to be statically linked with each executable? a program that just does stream IO really should be tiny, in my opinion. Is it possible that there could be a version of Beta implemented that didn't use garbage collecting, but instead some sort of user-defined source/sink or producer/consumer model? My guess is that garbage collecting is too deeply ingrained in the language... (not that garbage collecting is bad, I'm just asking theoretically, in fact please don't ask me why I would want to avoid it.) -- -Jim MoriheiUeshiba|Einstein|Escher|Ben&Jerry James Carroll Gilbert&Sullivan|ShawnColvin|CatStevens (802) 658-3669 EdgarFroese|AntonBruckner|Palestrina|Dewey Burlington, VT