... described in [ONG84].Our initial experience with the system is that dynamic linking is not preferable to static linking. Oneproblem is that initial loading of routines is slow. Also, the ADT routines ... Plains, N.Y.,June 1980.[KOOI82] Kooi, R. and Frankfurth, D., "Query Optimization in INGRES," IEEE DatabaseEngineering, September 1982.[LITW80] Litwin, W., "Linear Hashing: A New ... integer, floating point number, char-acter string) and built -in operators (e.g. +, -, *, /) were motivated by the needs of business data processingapplications. However, in many engineering applications...