[darcs-devel] [issue1357] wish: "chunky" representation for hunks

[Eric Kow]

New submission from Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net>:

This is a low-level optimisation for darcs.  We had tried it out between darcses
1.0.9 and 2.0.0, but backed it out due to bugs.  Note that camp uses chunky
hunks, if I understand correctly.

David has suggested a less ambitious and safer approach. The idea is that this
would be akin to the relationship between hashed-1.0 and plain repositories, in
other words, that you would need a new darcs client to interact with the chunky
repository, but that it would be 100% compatible with non-chunky hunks (can be
pushed back and forth)

I need a volunteer to:
- Describe what chunky hunks are
- Describe how we think they will help darcs performance

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messages: 7307
nosy: dmitry.kurochkin, kowey, simon, thorkilnaur
priority: wishlist
status: need-volunteer
title: wish: "chunky" representation for hunks
topic: Performance

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