[darcs-users] hashed-storage index

[Eric Kow]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 16:48:19 +0200, Petr Rockai wrote:
> > I just meant if reading the large index file would contribute a
> > significant amount (say a few seconds) of time to our total wall time in
> > a large repository (as you say, it's still a net improvement, but I'm
> > just curious).  I was wondering if the future would require us to break
> > the index up into smaller pieces.  But from the sounds of it, we won't
> > need to be worrying about that, at least not right now.
> Actually, there's no difference between reading one seven-megabyte file or
> seven one-megabyte files.

Well, I was thinking that maybe whatever scheme for breaking up the
index (as needed) would allow us to avoid reading all of the files all
of the time.

Regards,
 
-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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