Re: [PATCH 09/16] documentation: add documentation for the bitmap format
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Colby Ranger <cranger@google.com>
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- Jun 27, 2013, 00:53 UTC
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> + Generating this reverse index at runtime is **not** free (around 900ms > + generation time for a repository like `torvalds/linux`), and once again, > + this generation time needs to happen every time `pack-objects` is > + spawned.
If generating the reverse index is expensive, it is probably worthwhile to create a ".revidx" or extend the ".idx" with the information sorted by offset.