Re: Fractal tree indexing

On 02/13/2013 09:54 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:

>> I'd call it out as a marketing name. I guess it's fractal in the sense that
>> all levels of the tree can hold "leaf tuples" in the buffers; the structure
>> looks the same no matter how deep you zoom, like a fractal.. But "Buffered"
>> would be more appropriate IMO.
>
> I hope for their sake there is more to it than that. It's hard to see
> how buffering can be patented.

Talk to Apple about that. It only needs to be worded correctly.

JD


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