On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:47, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote:
> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:
>
> Mike> Robert Treat wrote:
>
> >> While some form of bitmapped indexing would be cool, other ideas might
> >> be to implement different buffer manager strategies. I was impressed by
> >> how quickly Jan was able to implement ARC over LRU, but there are a host
> >> of other strategies that could also be implemented.
>
> We already do that !
>
:-)
> We have a first "warm-up" assignment for which they get 2 weeks and
> have to change the strategy to MRU from LRU (in an earlier semester
> they were assigned 2Q). The idea here more to just get used to the
> code and the debugger.
>
It would be cool if some of these were posted to -patches... *in theory*
it would give folks a chance to do real stress testing on different
implementations. if nothing else we could bug Jan some more about making
the buffer management code configurable ;-)
Robert Treat
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