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From: Viral Tolat <viral.tolat@integral.com>
Subject: [VW] A faster BOSS?
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:36:01 +0100
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Suppose you have an application with simple persistence requirements. 
BOSS looks ideal, except in one respect: retrieval speed.

Does anyone know of any attempts to tweak BOSS to improve its
performance - even to the extent of changing the binary format to trade
space for speed?

-- Gary Birch

