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The following list shows all the constraints imposed by mifluz
.
It can also be seen as a list of functions provided by mifluz
that is more general than the API specification.
An atomic datum is something that must be manipulated as whole, with no possibility of splitting it into smaller parts. For instance a posting (Word, document identifier and position) is an atomic datum: to manipulate it in memory it has to reside completely in memory. By contrast a postings list is not atomic. Manipulating a postings list can be done without loading all the postings list in memory.
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