From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet•com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail•com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>,
git@vger•kernel.org, Dana How <danahow@gmail•com>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam•org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] super indexes to span multiple packfiles
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 19:20:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <465C52D3.3010605@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910705290905m66dd3081ubda9b92a707fc903@mail.gmail.com>
Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> My work with databases leads me to believe that figuring out how to
> pack everything into a smaller space always beats efforts put into
> incrementally improving the indexing scheme. Packing into a smaller
> space reduces the total IO needs and that's always a winner.
>
Another way to achieve that is to place objects that are accessed
together nearby, and issue a larger read so as to bring them into
cache. I imagine that placing commit objects and associated tree and
blobs in history order should help here (but maybe git already does
that, I'm not familiar with the internals).
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-29 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-29 7:16 [RFC] super indexes to span multiple packfiles Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-29 16:05 ` Jon Smirl
2007-05-29 16:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-29 16:20 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-05-29 16:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-05-30 9:40 ` Avi Kivity
2007-05-29 17:54 ` Geert Bosch
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