[Zope] What use is BTrees ???

[Andreas Jung]

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http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/BTrees/FrontPage

-aj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Max M" <maxm@mxm.dk>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 16:52
Subject: [Zope] What use is BTrees ???


> I am unshure on how BTrees works, but I suspect that they might be 
> usefull in a project I am doing, so I thought I might ask here.
> 
> I have an object which hase a dict as an attribute, in which I store 
> other objects. I know this is a relative expensive way to do it as 
> everytime an object is added to the dict the full object will be stored 
> in the ZODB.
> 
> As far as I understand, the BTree is like a dict.
> 
> So do I understand it right that if I use a BTree as a attribute instead 
> of a dict, it will only store the elements that are added/changed in the 
> ZODB but otherwise act as a dict?
> 
> I use integers as keys in the dict
> 
> regards Max M
> 
> 
> 
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