[elephant-devel] Accessing persistant instances

[Ben]

slot big will not be read unless you access it.

hope this answers your question.

take care, B

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Stefan Scholl wrote:

> Hi!
>
> A little question to help me understand something:
>
> NOTES says that "the current setup use one big btree table for
> all slots of all instances of all classes, keyed on OID + Slot
> ID".
>
> Does this mean that accessing an instance doesn't read in the
> whole object? Just the slots I read with the corresponding
> accessor method?
>
> E.g.: I have a class with 3 slots small1, small2, and big. Now I
> iterate over one complete btree with map-btree and just print
> small1  and  small2. Will slot  big  be read anyway?
>
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
>
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