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From: Hasko Heinecke <hasko@heeg.de>
Subject: Re: Can I Buy "Large Collections" for ST
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Andy Moorley wrote:
> Me:     Actually no - ignoring the problem of sorting out hashing etc which you
>         need to do for large collections, I don't easily have classes to do things like
>         B-tree indexes etc ?  Gemstone provides persistent collection classes inside
>         it's SmalltalkDB - why don't you provide persistent collection classes for
>         use in VisualWorks ?
> 
> Them:   We will in the long term, but you can buy class libraries for this sort
>         of thing.
> 
> So - off  I go to find these Holy Grail class libraries - but they are obviously a very special
> kind of library which manges to conceal itself in such a way that all my attempts to find
> them fail !!
> 
> Does anyone know if these things actually exist - or I am just be given a load of flannel for
> the time being ??

So why don't you just go and take GemStone? You said yourself they have
what you need. And it's a Smalltalk, too.

Hasko
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