X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=osl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=c8cfff0824f9e76322601ee1fda525ae244a206d;hp=23f177f6626f2dc5fd7465e96fb7303fbe5566b8;hb=f0884471639e04bda513bb5a9055d5c00d8c4533;hpb=f10261e6a15f9a645457f9a63ae2a6236f9c2631 diff --git a/README b/README index 23f177f..c8cfff0 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -12,15 +12,18 @@ Libosl is simple: - There is no fancy query language but only a relatively simple C-API. - - There's no support for network-access and libosl does not - use any table locking. + - There's no network support for network-access and libosl + only uses a very rudimentary table locking mechanism. + + - There are no dependencies on external libraries. An augmented + version of the red-black tree implementation of the linux + kernel is in included in the libosl package. Libosl is fast: - It uses sha1 hashes for content-based addressing. - - An augmented version of the rbtree implementation of the - linux kernel is used for lookups. + - Red-black trees are used to make lookups fast. Libosl is portable: