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Re: [PULL svn-fe] vcs-svn: simplifications, error handling improvements

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DBDavid Barr <david.barr.cordelta@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 23, 2011, 07:11 UTC
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Hi,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Please pull
>> 
>>  git://repo.or.cz/git/jrn.git svn-fe
>> 
>> to get the following changes on top of master.
> 
> Done.
> 
> I only gave a cursory look at "git diff ORIG_HEAD" output immediately
> after pulling, but I found that the majority of lines deleted were of
> questionable style and the added ones looked more like normal C ;-)
> 
> Except for
> 
> 	switch (keylen + 1) {
>        case sizeof("constant string"):
>        	...
>                break;
>        case sizeof("another constant string"):
>        	...
> 	}
> 
> which looked a bit unusual. But mistakes in this construct can be easily
> caught by the compiler that would notice duplicated case labels, so it
> probably is not so brittle as it first looks.

Agreed, it is quite an odd construct but it took quite a bit of refinement to arrive there. It is a compromise between moderately readable and reasonably fast. I did play around with perfect hash generators prior to settling on this approach. Ditto re compile time checking.

Jonathan, I suppose I should set up a performance test for these patches because my first thought was "I wonder what these buy us on their own?"

-- David Barr.

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Message 58 of 72 in “vcs-svn: purge obsolete data structures and code”
  1. David BarrMar 19, 2011
  2. 1/9 vcs-svn: pass paths through to fast-importDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  3. Jonathan NiederMar 19, 2011
  4. 2/9 vcs-svn: avoid using ls command twiceDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederMar 19, 2011
  6. 3/9 vcs-svn: implement perfect hash for node-prop keysDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  7. Jonathan NiederMar 19, 2011
  8. 1/3 vcs-svn: implement perfect hash for node-prop keysDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  9. 2/3 vcs-svn: implement perfect hash for top-level keysDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  10. 3/3 vcs-svn: use switch rather than cascading ifsDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  11. [PATCHv2] vcs-svn: use switch rather than cascading ifsDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  12. 4/9 vcs-svn: implement perfect hash for top-level keysDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  13. Jonathan NiederMar 19, 2011
  14. 5/9 vcs-svn: factor out usage of string_poolDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  15. Jonathan NiederMar 19, 2011
  16. 6/9 vcs-svn: drop string_poolDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  17. 7/9 vcs-svn: drop trp.hDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  18. 8/9 vcs-svn: drop obj_pool.hDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  19. 9/9 vcs-svn: use strchr to find RFC822 delimiterDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  20. Jonathan NiederMar 19, 2011
  21. vcs-svn: integrate support for text deltasDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  22. 01/16 vcs-svn: improve support for reading large filesDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  23. 02/16 vcs-svn: make buffer_skip_bytes return length readDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  24. 03/16 vcs-svn: make buffer_copy_bytes return length readDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  25. 04/16 vcs-svn: improve reporting of input errorsDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  26. 05/16 vcs-svn: learn to maintain a sliding view of a fileDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  27. 06/16 vcs-svn: skeleton of an svn delta parserDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  28. Jonathan NiederMar 28, 2011
  29. 07/16 vcs-svn: parse svndiff0 window headerDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  30. 08/16 vcs-svn: read the preimage when applying deltasDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  31. 09/16 vcs-svn: read inline data from deltasDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  32. 10/16 vcs-svn: read instructions from deltasDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  33. 11/16 vcs-svn: implement copyfrom_data delta instructionDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  34. 12/16 vcs-svn: verify that deltas consume all inline dataDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  35. 13/16 vcs-svn: let deltas use data from postimageDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  36. 14/16 vcs-svn: let deltas use data from preimageDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  37. 15/16 vcs-svn: microcleanup in svndiff0 window-reading codeDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  38. 16/16 vcs-svn: implement text-delta handlingDavid Barr, Mar 19, 2011
  39. Jonathan NiederMar 28, 2011
  40. David BarrMar 28, 2011
  41. 00/11 vcs-svn: purge obsolete data structures and codeDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  42. 01/11 vcs-svn: use strbuf for revision logDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  43. 02/11 vcs-svn: pass paths through to fast-importDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  44. 03/11 vcs-svn: avoid using ls command twiceDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  45. 04/11 vcs-svn: implement perfect hash for node-prop keysDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  46. 05/11 vcs-svn: implement perfect hash for top-level keysDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  47. 06/11 vcs-svn: use switch rather than cascading ifsDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  48. 07/11 vcs-svn: factor out usage of string_poolDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  49. 08/11 vcs-svn: drop string_poolDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  50. =??q?=5BPATCH=2009/11=5D=20vcs-svn=3A=20drop=20trp=2Eh?=David Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  51. 10/11 vcs-svn: drop obj_pool.hDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  52. 11/11 vcs-svn: use strchr to find RFC822 delimiterDavid Barr, Mar 21, 2011
  53. [PULL svn-fe] vcs-svn: simplifications, error handling improvementsJonathan Nieder, Mar 23, 2011
  54. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2011
  55. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2011
  56. Jonathan NiederMar 26, 2011
  57. t0081-line-buffer.sh hangs (Re: [PULL svn-fe] vcs-svn: simplifications, error handling improvements)Jonathan Nieder, Mar 26, 2011
  58. David BarrMar 23, 2011
  59. fixup! vcs-svn: improve reporting of input errorsDavid Barr, Mar 24, 2011
  60. Jonathan NiederMar 25, 2011
  61. 0/4 vcs-svn: null bytes in propertiesJonathan Nieder, Mar 25, 2011
  62. 1/4 vcs-svn: make reading of properties binary-safeJonathan Nieder, Mar 25, 2011
  63. tbMar 28, 2011
  64. Jonathan NiederMar 28, 2011
  65. Torsten BögershausenMar 28, 2011
  66. Jonathan NiederMar 28, 2011
  67. 2/4 vcs-svn: remove buffer_read_stringJonathan Nieder, Mar 25, 2011
  68. 3/4 vcs-svn: avoid unnecessary copying of log message and authorJonathan Nieder, Mar 25, 2011
  69. 4/4 vcs-svn: handle log message with embedded null bytesJonathan Nieder, Mar 25, 2011
  70. Jonathan NiederMar 26, 2011
  71. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2011
  72. vcs-svn: add missing cast to printf argumentJonathan Nieder, Mar 28, 2011

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