>BTW, have you looked at Andrew Tridgell's Trivial Database? It uses mmaped >files and spin-locks to achieve good write performance, although I don't >think resilience in the face of crashes was a high priority. However the >architecture-dependent spin lock code may be handy if you ever decide >to follow this route.
I intended to include this URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdb/ -- Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft http://www.object-craft.com.au/