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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Alberto Bertogli <albertito@gmail.com>,
	gitster@pobox.com, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introduce commit notes
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:57:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707160857.48725.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707152326080.14781@racer.site>

On Monday 2007 July 16, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> The biggest obstacle was a thinko about the scalability.  Tree objects
> take free form name entries, and therefore a binary search by name is not
> possible.

I might be misunderstanding, but in the case of the notes tree objects isn't 
it true that the name entries aren't free form, but are guaranteed to be of a 
fixed length form:

  XX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

In which case you can binary search?


Andy
-- 
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
andyparkins@gmail.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-16  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-15 23:19 [PATCH 0/6] Introduce commit notes Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] Rename git_one_line() to git_line_length() and export it Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:23 ` [PATCH 2/6] Introduce commit notes Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-15 23:52     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16  0:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-16  5:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19  2:30     ` [REVISED PATCH " Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19  3:28       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19  5:13         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19  9:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19  9:57             ` Adam Hayek
2007-07-19 10:58             ` Andy Parkins
2007-07-19 11:10               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 14:33                 ` Andy Parkins
2007-07-19 17:42             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20  0:20               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-20  4:59             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-19 17:20           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19  9:50         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 10:34         ` Olivier Galibert
2007-07-19 17:50           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19  9:05       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-19  9:24         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19  9:54       ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-07-15 23:23 ` [PATCH 3/6] Add git-notes Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16  5:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19  2:31     ` [REVISED PATCH " Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19  2:54       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:24 ` [PATCH 4/6] Add a test script for "git notes" Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16  5:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19  2:32     ` [REVISED PATCH " Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:24 ` [PATCH 5/6] Document git-notes Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:26 ` [WIP PATCH 6/6] notes: add notes-index for a substantial speedup Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:33   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16  6:01   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-16 16:29     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16  7:57 ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2007-07-16  8:11   ` [PATCH 0/6] Introduce commit notes Junio C Hamano
2007-07-16 16:26     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16 17:56       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19  1:34         ` Johannes Schindelin

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