- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:45:55 +0300
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: ext Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On 2002-06-27 20:46, "ext Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 01:40, Patrick Stickler wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2002-06-26 20:38, "ext Brian McBride" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> In the introduction, it would be good, I think, to add a comment
>> that the tidy/untidy issue has little to do with implementational
>> efficiency of triples stores,
>
> not true; see comments from Sergey a long time ago about
> the cost of untidy literals in RDF/database systems.
Sorry, but those were, IMO, sufficiently refuted.
> Sorry I don't have time to find it.
>
> The swap/cwm implementation would suffer a significant
> efficiency hit if literals weren't tidy.
>
> http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/
>
> esp in def loadToStore(store, addr):
>
> store.storeQuad((store._experience,
> store.semantics,
> store.intern((SYMBOL, addr)),
> store.intern((FORMULA, addr + "#_formula" ))))
Sure, if you didn't fix it. The above treatment of literals
as global constants would simply be wrong, given their untidy
semantics.
Patrick
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