[RFC] Removing the inventory concept from Bazaar.

[Matthieu Moy]

"Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net> writes:

> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:45:11PM +0100 I heard the voice of
> Daniel Silverstone, and lo! it spake thus:
>> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 11:12 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> > Yes, but I can imagine a very, very small constant factor, because
>> > we'd only be adding a knit index entry.
>> 
>> But still, however small that constant factor, you're back to
>> O(size-of-tree)
>
> Don't forget size as well as time.
>
> If a noop record is a hundred bytes (revids's can easily be over 50
> just by themselves), and you have a hundred thousand revision of a
> hundred thousand files, you've got a gigabyte of noop records.

100 * 100,000 * 100,000 = 10^12

If I'm counting correctly, that's _tera_, not giga.

-- 
Matthieu