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At various places, concepts and drafts from the early stage of the Lumiera Project are still reflected in the online documentation pages. During the last months, development focussed on the Render Engine, causing a shift in some parts of the design, and obsoleting other parts altogether (notably we consider to use IO_URING for async IO)
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Design Documents: Vault
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What follows is a summary of Lumiera's *Data Handling Backend*
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This is the foundation layer responsible for any high performance or high volume
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data access. Within Lumiera, there are two main kinds of data handling:
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* The Session and the object models manipulated through the GUI are kept in memory.
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They are backed by a _storage backend,_ which provides database-like storage and
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especially logging, replaying and ``Undo'' of all ongoing modifications..
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* Media data is handled _frame wise_ -- prefetching data asynchronously.
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The goal is to optimize CPU utilization; large scale data IO will be performed
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asynchronously. Data retrieval and processing of prerequisites will
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be *scheduled* such as to manage the rendering _just in time_.
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