Knits vs Weaves

[Aaron Bentley]

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Matthieu Moy wrote:
| Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:
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|>To be honest, I don't understand why network operations are blazing fast
|>with knits.  Perhaps someone else can fill us in?
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| Do knit make it possible to perform an actual "append" operation
| instead of "get + compute the new version + put + rename" ?

Yes, the binary knit contents are append-only.  I don't know whether the
current implementation does append operations.  The indices use atomic
replacement.

Aaron
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