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Optimize Class.find so that the propspec can contain a set of ids to match. This is used by indexer.search so it can do just one find for all the index matches. This was already confusing code, but for common terms (lots of index matches), it is enormously faster.
author Gordon B. McMillan <gmcm@users.sourceforge.net>
date Tue, 09 Jul 2002 21:53:38 +0000
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Roundup Glossary
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class
   a definition of the properties and behaviour of a set of nodes
db
   a collection of nodes
designator
   a combined class + nodeid reference to any node in the hyperdb
nodeid
   a numeric reference to a particular node of one class
node
   a collection of data that forms one entry in the hyperdb.
property
   one element of data that makes up a node
schema
   the definition of all the classes that make up an instance
instance
   I've defined this well somewhere else...


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