Re: [PATCH 00/10] reftable: drop generic `reftable_table` interface

> Hi,
>
> this patch series performs some simplification of the reftable library
> by dropping the generic `reftable_table` interface. The intent of this
> interface is to abstract away whether the underlying table is either a
> single reftable, or a merged reftable. Arguably though, it is not needed
> anymore starting with my recent refactorings [1] that made the reftable
> iterator itself seekable, as that now provides such a generic interface
> already.
>
> So this patch series rips out the `reftable_table` interface, both to
> remove unused clutter, but more importantly to make the reftable library
> easier to understand overall. There is also a tiny performance gain of
> 1-3% by requiring one less vtable function call. But while that speedup
> is consistent, I didn't include any benchmarks as it is rather close to
> noise and not the primary motivation of this patch series.
>
> Patrick
>