Development cycle using GOODS for persistence
Avi Bryant
avi at beta4.com
Tue Oct 19 15:37:02 UTC 2004
On Oct 19, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Yanni Chiu wrote:
> In a talk at Smalltalk Solution '04, on GemStone usage a WAMU, the
> approach taken was a lazy conversion. So two class definitions/method
> dictionaries were present in production, but the conversion took
> place JIT, IIUC. It had to be done this way because the large volume
> of data to be converted meant the downtime for conversion was too long.
Yes, which is a good argument for migrate-on-load approaches (vs.
migrate-in-a-workspace, as John Pierce was describing). I'm pretty
sure that Niall Ross said that this is how Kapital at JPMorgan works as
well.
Avi
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