Re: fs-rep-sharing branch

On Oct 21, 2008, at 8:05 PM- Oct 21, 2008, Greg Stein wrote:

> After you've changed the editor API, the wc_entry_t structure,
> migrated all old clients over to svn_checksum_t, and then switched the
> storage defaults over to sh1, *then* we can talk about "an easy
> switch".
>
> The simple fact is that we're going to be running around with md5
> checksums in hand for a long while. OR we double-compute, and I'm not
> willing to burn that much CPU to satisfy somebody's misguided
> preconception about md5 collisions. And double-compute generally means
> that we *carry around* both checkums. You wanna update all the APIs
> for that, too?
>

+1 (on gregs position for this issue)

lets not introduce more performance overheads based on a corner case.

svn as it stands is way toooo slooow folks... please don't get
distracted from
that fact. i'm dealing with 20 minutes commits, 15 minute status
checks etc and my
users want to know why...

also, svn already does way too many checksums from what i've been able
to
decipher.

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Received on 2008-10-22 06:40:16 CEST