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From: "Dana How" <danahow@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Lazily open pack index files on demand
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 09:06:22 -0700
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On 5/27/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> BTW I think the Newton-Raphson based index lookup approach should be
> revived at some point.
Yes.

 I think if we figure out the statistics we could win big.
I thought about it a bit when it was first discussed
but need to return to it.

Thanks,
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Dana L. How  danahow@gmail.com  +1 650 804 5991 cell