The two main techniques of improving I/O performance of Object Oriented Database Management Systems(OODBMS) are clustering and buffer replacement. Clustering is the placement of o...
This paper describes FC++: a rich library supporting functional programming in C++. Prior approaches to encoding higher order functions in C++ have suffered with respect to polymo...
In this paper, we introduce techniques for animating explosions and their effects. The primary effect of an explosion is a disturbance that causes a shock wave to propagate thro...
Gary D. Yngve, James F. O'Brien, Jessica K. Hodgin...
Swizzling refers to the translation of object references from an external, persistent format to an internal, transient format used during application execution. Eager swizzling sc...
Kumar Brahnmath, Nathaniel Nystrom, Antony L. Hosk...
Ever since the `early days' of database management systems, clustering has proven to be one of the most effective performance enhancement techniques for object oriented datab...