On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:29:41AM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote:

>   So, Tom's correct.  Unfortunately, that means that this choice isn't
>   acceptable without sizeable wins, because it has a significant impact
>   on minimization.

Agreed.

I'd like to mention that Nico has been actively voicing support for having
some sort of a sqlite3 backend (I think as a cache of the raw manifests)
which could be used to get fast access to the actions, and help compute
image plans faster, etc.  I don't know what the truth to truthiness ratio
is for that, but it may be worth exploring.

That path would also have impact on search, obviously.  I assume it has a
great deal to do with the database schema, but it might be possible to rely
entirely on sqlite for search as well.  I don't know the pros and cons of
such a move, but it might be worth looking into.

It's another expansion of the requirements, but sqlite is smaller than a
JRE, and it's already required for SMF (albeit SMF has, at present, a
private copy).  And it wouldn't strictly be required for core functionality
(or even all functionality), it would just be there to speed things up.

Danek
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