On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Indeed, the performance of md5 is unimportant unless it is very slow.
> OTOH, the ability to reconstruct external (derived) files from the
> cache is huge: it trades an insignificant increase in write time for a
> huge decrease in read time.

Actually, write time is not affected since writing a leo file does not
write the cache files.

What we are trading off is the time spent when doing the first open of
a .leo file (since that's the time the cache files are created), but
that's negligible.

-- 
Ville M. Vainio
http://tinyurl.com/vainio

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