OpenEuphoria

Re: Changes

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM> Jul 19, 1998
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Daniel Berstein writes:
> I don't think this is enough Rob. As you know my primary interest
> are databases... 25 files doesn't let you build a complex
> relational data model. Is there any technical reason for this
> limitation?

When I worked on a relational database management system
 for Amdahl several years ago, we organized the user's
data base as one huge file containing all his
relational tables. We managed the space within that file,
allocating and freeing 4k "pages", while doing a lot of random
seeking within the file. We never had more than half a
dozen files open simultaneously.

No one *ever* complained about exhausting the 15-file limit
in an actual program, so I feel I'm being generous bumping
it to 25 

Seriously, it would be easy to raise it or even make it infinite,
but that would increase the size of ex.exe/exw.exe
slightly, taxing the available memory for *all* Euphoria programs
just to satisfy a lunatic fringe (that doesn't even exist yet).

Remember, it's not 25 files, it's 25 *simultaneously open"
files. If you actually write a program that needs
more than 25 files open at the same time, let me know.

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software
     http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/