On 4 Jun 1998, Adam P. Harris wrote: > I know Marco Budde, the maintainer of of dhelp, has already > implemented something that's really close. Marco, wanna step up to > the plate and develop a generic solution that could work for dpkg on > the *.list files and for doc-base? I.e., given a parsing system to > parse the files (hopefully pluggable), it should construct an indexed > fast lookup database.
Some time ago I posted some off the cuff estimates to the deity list on what an optimum storage format for the *.list data would look like.. Based on that I don't think a generic solution will give decent performance - ie you might find that load times go down but that unpack times go up. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
