>I rather think _you_ are missing the point (which is disk layout and >minimizing seeks, and _not_ a better memory layout. The tile based scheme >leads itself naturally to spatial indexing, in fatc it's already half the >way to go). About HD: is there a way to do swap on demand to a partition? A daemon, lib or something? I think that is what high end DBs do, handle their own data physical space. Just and idea based in what I have heard. Discard at will. GSR
