Technical Documentation                                           MetalBase 5.1
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This directory contains more technical information about the internals of
MetalBase, broken down into separate files (chapters) by subject.  Most
chapters consist of pseudocode or tables, but if you're lucky, I've added
some explanatory text as well.


      Format of relations...................................Chapter 1

      Binary tree algorithms................................Chapter 2

      Delayed indexing......................................Chapter 3

      Encryption............................................Chapter 4

      Internal cache........................................Chapter 5

      Locking and concurrency...............................Chapter 6

      Multi-length fields...................................Chapter 7

      Data compression......................................Chapter 8

      Typedef RELATION......................................Chapter 9

      Structure packing and alignment.......................Chapter 10

      MBCONV: Conversion from 4.0...........................Chapter 11

      MBDIAG: Repair of indices.............................Chapter 12

