On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:52:59PM -0400, Eric E wrote:
> One thought I had, and I'd love to hear what people think of this, is to
> build a table of storage location numbers that are available for use.
> That way the search for new numbers could be pushed off until some
> convenient moment well after the user requests them.
That very application is how I heard the idea for the "second method"
I sent in another email. In the case I was thinking of, someone used
it for room allocation. It worked pretty well, as long as you can
tolerate occasional periods where you _do_ have gaps.
A
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