My OperaPersistent Objects are a Failure
Monday, July 17, 2006 9:17:08 PM
There's an article on TSS.NET that summarizes what technologies Microsoft's Lampson belives that are failed and what techs are succeeded.
The whole article is fine, but Lampson says something that I can't understand quite well:
The fundamental problem with persistent objects has turned out to be: If you actually build a system with a lot of long-lived data structures, if you do a few million ‘new’s,’ the question is whether you just have anything useful, or whether you just have a rubble of objects – and the answer is unfortunately, you just have a rubble of objects.
Wot!? Why inserting a few million records in a database does not end up having a few million rubble rows but creating a few million persistent objects do? I bet only Lampson knows!
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