Re: Crazy 5-step plan to remove the cached pristine copy

Branko ÄŒibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:

> Eric Dorland wrote:
>
> >What about a compressed text-base? I've been toying with this idea and
> >I don't think it would be too hard to add to the existing code
> >base. And it would certainly go a long way to reducing the size of
> >those files and silencing the complainers (me being one of them :)
> >
> It would also make the WC library even slower.

If one had a working copy on a tediously slow network disk, and if one
had access to a blindingly fast CPU, and if Subversion properly used a
local TMPDIR for any temporary files, then it's possible that the
additional CPU to handle decompression would be more than offset by
the reduced working copy disk IO. That's a lot of ifs.

-- 
Philip Martin
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