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Add caveat regarding endianness of data files as suggested by Raphael Geronimi.

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Ben Johnson 2015-05-06 09:26:22 -06:00
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@ -550,6 +550,11 @@ Here are a few things to note when evaluating and using Bolt:
However, this is expected and the OS will release memory as needed. Bolt can
handle databases much larger than the available physical RAM.
* The data structures in the Bolt database are memory mapped so the data file
will be endian specific. This means that you cannot copy a Bolt file from a
little endian machine to a big endian machine and have it work. For most
users this is not a concern since most modern CPUs are little endian.
* Because of the way pages are laid out on disk, Bolt cannot truncate data files
and return free pages back to the disk. Instead, Bolt maintains a free list
of unused pages within its data file. These free pages can be reused by later