Re: [RFC] A libsvn_wc properties optimisation

On Nov 6, 2004, at 17:56, Erik Huelsmann wrote:

> [ snip; about properties files ]
>
>> The win is that you only have to do a file open on one file rather
>> then
>> lots of files/directory. I'm sure that parsing one file is far faster
>> then open
>> 10 files. The file sizes are trivial. I have 1856 bytes for 54 files
>> in
>> my repo for example.
>
> If merge tracking is going to use properties, then filesizes may grow
> well beyond trivial.

Since I read all props of a directory frequently, every few seconds
when clicking
around in a UI I still win over the current implementation. I would
rather see things
slow down as the parsing of the file becomes a problem rather then the
current
very slow performance.

Barry

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Received on Mon Nov 8 22:30:09 2004