Re: To sort or not to sort

First of all, I think specification work should be strictly an academic exercise and not governed by implementation-specific concerns.

That said, I think the fragments should be sorted before data syndication so no external sorting is required by the consuming client.

On a side note, there are concurrency software design patterns, like variants of MVCC, that persist data internally versioned and sorted. These designs require no pre-processing of the data before syndication.

Inge

Received on Friday, 12 October 2012 11:20:48 UTC