Knowledge Explorer News No. 16
1999 August 6

Knowledge Explorer version 4.0

1. speed enhancements

Standard characteristic value types (string, list, set) are stored without conversion.
An intermediate concept is created for non-standard value types.

I have combined the new attribute clustering techniques into a uniform attribute caching
mechanism. The concept types that currently use attribute caching are ke
event
method, relation
person, family, note I have added three Icon meaning procedures birth.icn, child.icn, marry.icn For the genealogy application, the use of attribute caching and Icon meaning procedures
speeds up the loading of large family histories by at least ten times.

2. other recent changes
New statistics
person, family
lines, propositions, context, sentences
statements, commands, assignments, questions

New argno attribute for methods and relations
allows arbitrary numbering of $variables