"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
> Hans Reiser wrote:
> >
> > To explain what hpa says:
> >
> > hashing destroys correlations in access (locality of reference), B-trees can
> > preserve it, RAM is less sensitive to correlations in access than disk is, thus
> > there is less motivation for balanced trees for in RAM accesses. The more you
> > employ technologies like RAMBUS (somewhat) and NUMA (much more so), the more
> > motivation to use trees.
> >
>
> With "trees" here read "B-trees, or other trees with high fanout."
> In-RAM structures usually use low-fanout trees.
>
> -hpa
hpa is right, slip trees are not effective for secondary memory storage, but are
considered excellent for local RAM only applications.
Hans
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