Re: Yet another base64 patch
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- H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
- Date
- Apr 15, 2005, 01:07 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, bert hubert wrote: > >>It is too easy to get into a O(N^2) situation. Git may be able to deal with >>it but you may hurt yourself when making backups, or if you ever want to >>share your tree (possibly with yourself) over the network. > > > Even something as simple as "ls -l" has been known to have O(n**2) > behaviour for big directories. >
Ultimately the question is: do we care about old (broken) filesystems?
-hpa