Re: Is there going to be a port to Solaris 9 x86 in the

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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