On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Paul Davis 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> That's an intriguing datapoint because _all_docs?include_docs=true is
> the same algorithmic complexity as issuing a larger number of GET
> requests. That would suggest that something in the HTTP layer is
> adding significant overhead to individual requests
>
> Interesting. I could try to write a test case in Ruby or Python — something 
> that would first fetch a large number of docs as individual GETs, then fetch 
> the same docs in a single _all_docs.
>

That could be useful but the bigger chunk of work here will be in
setting up and running the profiling for short lived processes.

> I’m assuming that the ?revisions=true option doesn’t add a huge amount of 
> overhead, since the revision tree is already contained in the document’s 
> b-tree node, right? So it would just require converting the revision's 
> history into JSON and transmitting that JSON.
>
> —Jens

Yeah, the hardest of bit of all this would just be adding the plumbing
to get that option down to the appropriate open_doc calls.

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