[darcs-users] hashed-storage index

[Petr Rockai]

Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> writes:
> 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.

I think the only case where we can avoid reading anything is with subtree
queries, in which case, we already don't read all of the index (it doesn't make
much of a difference whether it's all in one file or in many files as far as
reading just part of the file(s) goes, either).

Yours,
   Petr.

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