Thoughts on file ids

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 05/06/2011 02:57 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
> That's a good explanation of it, and I'd like to separate those three
> things too. Accessing more tree contents by name rather than id may well
> improve performance too.
> 

Right now data is stored in the repository very much by file-id.
Probably just fallthrough from how we decided to reference it. But
accessing *repository* content by path will always cause us to
dereference it from an Inventory (which is *also* stored based on
file-id, so it is pretty worst-case behavior).

If we do chose to switch, then we'll also want to switch our storage
behavior.

John
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