Lightweight Support for Fine-Grained Persistence on Stock Hardware (1995)
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@TECHREPORT{Hosking95lightweightsupport,
author = {Antony L. Hosking},
title = {Lightweight Support for Fine-Grained Persistence on Stock Hardware},
institution = {},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
LIGHTWEIGHT SUPPORT FOR FINE-GRAINED PERSISTENCE ON STOCK HARDWARE FEBRUARY 1995 ANTONY LLOYD HOSKING B.Sc., UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE M.Sc., UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor J. Eliot B. Moss Persistent programming languages combine the features of database systems and programming languages to allow the seamless manipulation of both short- and long-term data, thus relieving programmers of the burden of distinguishing between data that is transient (temporarily allocated in main memory) or persistent (residing permanently on disk). Secondary storage concerns, including the representation and management of persistent data, are directly handled by the programming language implementation, rather than the programmer. Moreover, unlike traditional database systems, persistent programming languages extend to persistent data all the data structuring features supported by the language, not just those imposed by the underlying database system. P...
