On Monday, March 8, 2004 Julian Foad wrote:
> The overhead in the number of files and directories is not
> currently being addressed, as far as I know.
This is easy to do.
>> Why doesn't SVN use a single folder? Why does it need 9 subfolders?
> It's a clean design that works well and is not a big overhead in
> most situations. The number of folders used was one of the least
> important things to worry about. Now that people are sometimes
> encountering situations where the number of folders is a significant
> issue, there is a possibility that someone may propose a
> modification to reduce the overhead. However, note that the space
> overhead of these folders is only really significant in projects
> that average less than about three files per folder, and whose files
> are all small, which is quite unusual. Most of the overhead
> typically comes not from the folders but from the three or four
> extra files per project file.
The tested library (Boost) has an average of 12.2 files/folder. The
average file size is 6 KB. You can see how much overhead it generates.
It's a fairly used library, and it's known that parts of it will be
included in the next C++ standard.
Adal Chiriliuc
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Mon Mar 8 16:19:29 2004