Yes, the first time I saw this described was in 1987 in a paper by A. Birrell, et. al. See [1]. It was also available as a DEC SRC report, number 24. [1] A si

Yes, the first time I saw this described was in 1987 in a paper by A. Birrell, et. al. See [1]. It was also available as a DEC SRC report, number 24. [1] A simple and efficient implementation of a small database, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/37499.37517?download=true https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/37499.37517?download=true