[Verse-dev] Saving and Loading

[Samuel Siltanen]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Eskil Steenberg wrote:

> All this code is about figuring out when is verse done, and the answer is
> very easy: it is never done. Many people has asked why verse cant just say
> when its done but Its a different way of thinging and not like geting data
> form a file like people are used to. You need to re-compute any data you
> have localy when ever any thing changes. Sure you can have a time out to
> that can guess that the subscribe is probably done now, but all that
> accomplices is to save a little cpu at start up. You must still have the
> mechanism to re compute at any time when something changes.

I can understand your (=Verse's) idea very well. Thus I have a 
question: does the VML-saver rewrite the file every time the data on 
the Verse-server changes?

Samuel Siltanen
saasilta at cc.hut.fi