Thoughts on file ids

[Martin Pool]

Yeah, I was thinking of wt access possibly being simpler and faster by name,
but you're right this will need testing and may well be a problem for
committed trees.
On May 6, 2011 3:02 PM, "John Arbash Meinel" <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
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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.
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> 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).
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> If we do chose to switch, then we'll also want to switch our storage
> behavior.
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> John
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