[GSoC] Designing a faster index format - Progress report week 14

2012-07-23 Thread Thomas Gummerer
== Work done in the previous 13 weeks == - Definition of a tentative index file v5 format [1]. This differs from the proposal in making it possible to bisect the directory entries and file entries, to do a binary search. The exact bits for each section were also defined. To further compress

Re: [GSoC] Designing a faster index format - Progress report week 14

2012-07-23 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Thomas Gummerer t.gumme...@gmail.com wrote: - We added a POC, for partial loading in git grep. This is still a pretty hacky implementation, but it demonstrates pretty well how much can be gained. Here are the timings Thomas posted on IRC yesterday. The