Re: Understanding version 4 packs

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mar 26, 2007, 18:15 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703261414130.3041@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550703261010u67aa1207j1c6f0200bb7744a@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:

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> On 3/26/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:
> > 
> > > Experimenting with file names cache in qgit I have found a big saving
> > > splitting the paths in base name and file name and indexing both:
> > >
> > > drivers\usb\host\ehci.h
> > > drivers\usb\host\ehci-pci.c
> > > drivers\usb\host\ohci-pci.c
> > > kernel\sched.c
> > >
> > > became:
> > >
> > > dir names table
> > >
> > > 0 drivers\usb\host
> > > 1 kernel
> > >
> > >
> > > file name table
> > >
> > > 0 ehci.h
> > > 1 ehci-pci.c
> > > 2 ohci-pci.c
> > >
> > > In this way a big saving is achieved in case of directories deep in
> > > the tree (long paths) and a lot of files.
> > 
> > Sure, but if you also consider drivers/usb/Makefile and drivers/Kconfig

                     ^^^^

> In your example you'd have:
> 
> drivers/usb/Makefile
> drivers/Kconfig

No.  "also" was the key word here.

Nicolas