On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 16:48:19 +0200, Petr Rockai wrote: > > I just meant if reading the large index file would contribute a > > significant amount (say a few seconds) of time to our total wall time in > > a large repository (as you say, it's still a net improvement, but I'm > > just curious). I was wondering if the future would require us to break > > the index up into smaller pieces. But from the sounds of it, we won't > > need to be worrying about that, at least not right now. > Actually, there's no difference between reading one seven-megabyte file or > seven one-megabyte files.
Well, I was thinking that maybe whatever scheme for breaking up the index (as needed) would allow us to avoid reading all of the files all of the time. Regards, -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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