From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [GSoC] Designing a faster index format Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:10:18 +0100 Message-ID: <878virfx11.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> References: <8D287169-1AD9-4586-BDBC-F820220328FC@gmail.com> <871uomrubl.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> <8901F6B5-7396-44E1-9687-20BF95114728@gmail.com> <871uomq64c.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , To: Thomas Gummerer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 23 11:10:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SB1S0-0001IW-8t for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:10:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755184Ab2CWKKW (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:10:22 -0400 Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:13987 "EHLO edge10.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753838Ab2CWKKW (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:10:22 -0400 Received: from CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:10:17 +0100 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:10:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Thomas Gummerer's message of "Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:51:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Thomas, Thomas Gummerer writes: > 24/04 - 12/05: Getting familiar with the old index I am aware that this falls into the period for "getting up to speed", however I think if you spend a day or so *now* reading through read_index, write_index and the relevant docs. We can then give you the brief rundown on cache_tree, and you'll have a much clearer picture of how things fall together. I think that should lead to a lot of enlightenment and a greatly improved proposal. - Thomas -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch