Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes:
> PS: is it easy to explain why we don't use a plain text format for the
>     index file?
Performance reasons. Reading and updating the index is the actual whatsnew
performance bottleneck these days (when the cache is hot). I'll document the
format in more detail a little later (I need to nap now).

Yours,
   Petr.

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 indented six feet downward and covered with dirt."
     -- Blair P. Houghton on the subject of C program indentation
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