[darcs-devel] darcs patch: (Re)upgrade createPS and generatePS to D... (and 8 more)

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:44:42AM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
> > Maybe we can egg on the bytestring people and get them to submit
> > patches taking this further down (for example, they could improve our
> > between newlines and nth newline stuff).
> 
> That'd be nice.

I should note, though, that we can also make probably faster progress by
simply reducing the dependency on the counting of lines.  In particular,
I'd like to change Hunk to store a new and old PackedString + line number
counts, rather than storing new and old [PackedString].  We'd still need to
find the nth newline, etc, but we'd use much less memory and probably be
faster to boot.  Even better when we introduce (maybe before darcs 2 is
released?) a new hunk file format that doesn't have all those +'s and -'s.
Then parsing is lightning fast and we won't need duplicate copies of the
hunk data in memory.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University