Re: svn commit: r1613854 - in /subversion/branches/authzperf: BRANCH-README subversion/libsvn_repos/authz.c

On 28.07.2014 12:40, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> On 28 July 2014 02:23, <stefan2_at_apache.org> wrote:
>> Author: stefan2
>> Date: Sun Jul 27 22:23:26 2014
>> New Revision: 1613854
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1613854
>> Log:
>> On the authzperf branch: Very first step towards faster authz.
>> Determine the user's aliases and group memberships once and
>> then use this to evaluate rules in O(1).
>>
>> Right now, that information is constructed on the fly for each
>> request and used from the existing matching code. This overhead
>> will be eliminated in later commits. Right now, this is to
>> introduce new, reviewable / testable code.
>>
> Anyone who want to improve authz performance should consider to
> separate config file parser and config storage. To read authz
> configuration in appropriate custom structure directly and avoid read
> authz file in intermediate svn_config_t.

That's on my todo list, as the very last step. The parsing overhead is
the least of our worries right now.

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