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[arnold at skeeve.com]

arnold at skeeve.com wrote:

> Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> > The caches worked across reboots.  I left not long after we completed 1.0,
> > Bob Mende (RIP) and some other folks took the mmap based dbm (I called
> > mdbm) and put locks in each page so you could have multiple writers.
> > That code made its way to yahoo and just got used for everything, they
> > made it C++ (not a fan of that but whatever) and evolved it farther than
> > I ever imagined.  They had DBs that were 100's of gigs ~20 years ago.
> > They open sourced their stuff.
>
> Any idea where to find this now?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold

And, I *still* haven't learned to ask Google first.  A quick search
finds these:

https://github.com/yahoo/mdbm
https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/104861108931/mdbm-high-speed-database

Enjoy,

Arnold