Re: Index format v5

From: Ronan Keryell <ronan.keryell@hpc-project.com>
Date: May 3, 2012, 18:21 UTC
Message-ID: <87ehr15dnh.fsf@an-dro.info.enstb.org>
In-Reply-To: <CALgYhfMKdbv8TiT4ALDSvD3pSXHEPLWHM09DxYnRmRdBWRjh8Q@mail.gmail.com>

>>>>> On Thu, 3 May 2012 19:25:12 +0200, Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> said:

    Thomas> I have been drafting the Version 5 of the index format over
    Thomas> the past few days with the help of Thomas Rast, Michael
    Thomas> Haggerty, cmn and barrbrain on IRC. It will save with prefix
    Thomas> compression on the path, and using a crc32 over the stat
    Thomas> data, instead of the full data, since it is only used for
    Thomas> checking if the file is changed. (Thanks Michael Haggerty
    Thomas> for this hint. Unless we are missing something this will
    Thomas> save another ~4 MB on the Webkit index.

Great!

But I wonder whether it may not worth to investigate a 64-bit version for the offsets and so on, just in case...

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