Hi Erik, I am not sure if that would a considerable opitmization but even if you wanted to do it, it would be much more than just adding a check in the constructor (the serialization/deserialization would need to have specialized code). Right now all the datanodes are treated equally for ser/derser and other purposes.
mahadev On 7/14/09 1:42 PM, "Erik Holstad" <erikhols...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure if I've miss read the code for the DataNode, but to me it looks > like every node gets a set of children even though it might be an > ephemeral node which cannot have children, so we are wasting 240 B for every > one of those. Not sure if it makes a big difference, but just thinking > that since everything sits in memory and there is no reason to instantiate > it, maybe it would be possible just to add a check in the constructor? > > Regards Erik
