Re: [ZODB-Dev] Immutable blobs?

2011-05-09 Thread Jim Fulton
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Laurence Rowe wrote: > While looking at the Plone versioning code the other day, it struck me > that it would be much more efficient to implement file versioning if > we could rely on blobs never changing after their first commit, as a > copy of the file data would

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Immutable blobs?

2011-05-09 Thread Laurence Rowe
On 9 May 2011 13:32, Hanno Schlichting wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Laurence Rowe wrote: >> While looking at the Plone versioning code the other day, it struck me >> that it would be much more efficient to implement file versioning if >> we could rely on blobs never changing after the

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Immutable blobs?

2011-05-09 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Laurence Rowe wrote: > While looking at the Plone versioning code the other day, it struck me > that it would be much more efficient to implement file versioning if > we could rely on blobs never changing after their first commit, as a > copy of the file data would

[ZODB-Dev] Immutable blobs?

2011-05-09 Thread Laurence Rowe
While looking at the Plone versioning code the other day, it struck me that it would be much more efficient to implement file versioning if we could rely on blobs never changing after their first commit, as a copy of the file data would not need to be made proactively in the versioning repository i