Re: Show of hands, how many set USE_NSEC

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

That single file however does not need to be structured internallyy
the way it is.

Ok, at that point I certainly agree.  

As long as we're talking about a single flat file, I don't think it would 
be all that painful to have a totally new index format. The original 
format was (obviously) designed to be just mmap'ed and turned into a C 
array with no real parsing.

But once we started building a separate index data structure with internal 
structure _anyway_ (for the extended in-memory flags and the filename 
hashing), a lot of the reasons for the original format kind of went away.

			Linus