On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 13:50:30 +0200, Petr Rockai wrote:
> Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes:
> > OK.  Another question: if there are lots of files in the repository,
> > will this create a problematically large index file?
> 
> Well, what would problematically mean? For 80893 pristine.hashed items, the
> index is about 7.2M. For files of average size below 10 bytes, pristine.hashed
> itself takes up 326M and working directory about the same size (ie. this is
> about the minimal size of a repository with about 80000 files and 800
> directories). I think little over 7 megs is more than acceptable. (I however
> expect that the new pristine format will be somewhat more compact.)

Good to quantify these things (I think this could be a useful footnote
in the documentation).

Will loading/reading a 7.2M file for darcs operations create any
noticeable overhead?

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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