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David Binger wrote:
> The easiest thing to do would be to use the exact same record format
> that FileStorage does, and use the same packing strategy.
> You won't need to run it very frequently because your storage won't have
> any accumulation of obsolete versions of instances.  The only growth
> will be from abandoned or lost instances, and that amount of space
> would, I expect, tend to be small.

I agree.

I'm worried about the memory usage during the garbage collection. I
would need memory proportional to live+dead objects counts, and I don't
like that.

> I think this also makes the BerkeleyDB version of the Storage
> very simple to implement, since you just store the mapping of
> oids to pickles, pushing them out transactiionally.

That's the idea :-).

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