Re: Store refreshed stat info in a separate file?

2014-04-24 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Having said that, I do not think there is a fundamental reason why the stat data has to live inside the same index file. A separate file is just fine, as long as you can reliably detect that they went out of sync for

Re: Store refreshed stat info in a separate file?

2014-04-18 Thread Junio C Hamano
Duy Nguyen pclo...@gmail.com writes: The major cost of writing an index is the SHA-1 hashing. The bigger the written part is, the higher cost we pay. So what if we write stat-only data to a separate file? Think of it as an index extension, only it stays outside the index. On webkit with 182k