Re: [PATCH 2/2] Implement a simple delta_base cache

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

quoted

This is definitely an area where pack v4 will bring that cost down to 
zero.

Heh. I believe that when I see it. The thing is, unless you re-generate 
the tree object data structures, you'll have to have totally different 
tree walkers for different tree types, and it will all be quite ugly and 
complex. And "ugly and complex" seldom translates into "zero cost".

Well... in my opinion it is the _current_ tree walker that is quite ugly 
and complex.  It is always messier to parse strings than fixed width 
binary fields.


Nicolas