[tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH 1/2] space: add method to fetch next rowid

[Konstantin Osipov <kostja@tarantool.org>]

* n.pettik <korablev@tarantool.org> [18/11/12 16:12]:
> 
> It is true that 2^64 is likely to be quite huge number of tuples,
> but for instance JOIN uses nested-loop algorithm, so it requires
> n^2 memory for ephemeral table to comprise results.
> In this regard, to reach the limit we need 4-way join where each
> table contains 2^16 entries, which in turn doesn’t seem to be giant.
> 
> *It is only thoughts tho, I haven’t tested it since I suppose very likely
>  my pc would simply get stuck.*

intel 64 bit architecture can not address more than 48 bits.

Apart from the fact that you can multiply 4 numbers in a cross
join there is a question how much time this nested loop is going
to run. Imagine it runs 2^48 processor ticks. It's several weeks
by a conservative estimate.
> 
> I wanted to create long test as the easiest solution, but Alexander warned
> me that Travis may not survive such test due to lack of memory.
> 
> 

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