From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Show of hands, how many set USE_NSEC
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:00:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808081056090.3462@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080808175247.GH9152@spearce.org>
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
> That single file however does not need to be structured internallyy
> the way it is.
Ok, at that point I certainly agree.
As long as we're talking about a single flat file, I don't think it would
be all that painful to have a totally new index format. The original
format was (obviously) designed to be just mmap'ed and turned into a C
array with no real parsing.
But once we started building a separate index data structure with internal
structure _anyway_ (for the extended in-memory flags and the filename
hashing), a lot of the reasons for the original format kind of went away.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-08 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-08 16:34 Show of hands, how many set USE_NSEC Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-08 16:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-08 16:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-08 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-08 17:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-08 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-08-13 20:01 ` Robin Rosenberg
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