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Peter Wilkinson wrote:
> * Packing to remove un-referenced records is the part that I spent most
> time thinking about and didn't come up with a satisfactory solution.

No surprise here. Garbage Collection is a difficult issue :-).

> I'd focus on just the on
> disk index of individual records so maybe somehow it can be made that
> such that it just doesn't need to be read completely on start-up.

If the index record were stored ordered, I guess you could do a binary
search (with a cache) of the index directly on disk.

I thought about that, but in my case the garbage collection strategy in
current DURUS was a "showstopper", specially if the objects are BIG and
your store size is multigigabyte. So I rather prefered to kill two birds
with a single store, so I do the berkeleydb storage engine.

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