Re: RFC: Flat directory for notes, or fan-out? Both!
> Sure, one problem is that the index reading code is inherently written
> for a single index state. However, all notes consumers I can
> currently think of (show, log, anything that displays commit messages)
> do not have to access the "real" index.
> At a (*very*) cursory glance at read-cache.c, it seems that there is
> even support for having several index structures in memory at once,
> making this easy. And it looks like reading the cache is more or less
> memcpy() if xmmap() is fast (Windows would suffer once again).
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Thomas Rast
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