Re: VCS comparison table
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
- Date
- Oct 26, 2006, 17:24 UTC
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, David Lang wrote:
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> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > The pack index is actually limited to 32-bits meaning it can cope with > > packs no larger than 4G. > > the offset within a pack for the starting location of an object cannot be > larger then 4G.
To be more exact, yes. But I don't think we'll ever consider use scenarios with packs > 4G with the current index format. There is simply no point.