Hi All,
Randall Randall contributed some code to add indexes to managed-prevalence, today I merge his code in CVS head (not yet in the release tarball)
Exported functions:
index-on drop-index-on find-object-with-slot
Comments:
The ideas and most code comes from Randall, I added code to drop indexes, added code to add existing objects to newly created indexes, added a fallback for find-object-with-slot in case there is no index, changed the code that checked for unchanged slots so that it conses less.
Todo:
Since indexing was added to improve performance, I think current the generation of root and index names done each time we access a root or index is too slow (especially conses too much).
I have a new scheme of root naming that I am thinking about that might solve this problem. It might also allow for iteration over all current indexes of a class which could be usefull when deleting objects, and might bring back the index->object association instead of the current index->id association which is currently adding another indirection.
Sven