Re: reduce number of administrative files

solo turn wrote:

>i know we had this discussion already, but karl seems to insist to
>continue it here:
>
>currently svn client stores minimum 10 times as many files/folders in
>the administrative area as files/folders administered.
>
>can we put everything possible in the entries file and remove all the
>subdirectories completely?
>
>

We had this discussion before, and you asked this question before, and
was answered before... here's how it goes: if we did that, the entries
file could potentially become *huge*. Remember, there's no real size
limit on property values. That in turn means that reading and writing
the entries file would suddenly become very slow, and it would also make
memory usage skyrocket (because of entries caching).

To date, I haven't seen a single measurement indicating that what you
propose would actually make the client faster.

(Performance tuning is really just like carpentry -- measure twice, cut
once, or you'll regret it! :-)

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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