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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: ima: use of radix tree cache indexing == massive waste of
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Hi!

> >> > Good enough as a short-term thing I guess.
> >> > 
> >> > But the memory consumption which David described is plain nuttiness
> >>and
> >> > needs to be fixed, presumably by using a more appropriate data
> >>structure
> >> > for lookups.
> >> > 
> >> > However unless I missed it, nobody has yet stated that they intend to
> >> > fix this?
> >> 
> >> I think Eric said he is going to look at it.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> 
> >> Dave.
> >
> >Am looking at it as well.
> >
> >Mimi
> 
> I'll help look into this aspect too.
> 
> To be clear (since my first post seemed to go to the moderator), we will
> be using this starting with MeeGo 1.2.  Yes, this rather pigish memory
> usage needs to be addressed.  Let's focus on fixing that.  I'd say there
> are a number of options we can explore here to do that.

Curious... I see how NSA might want to use it, but MeeGo?
									Pavel



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