From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D51DFC433EF for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1CA160F9D for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236950AbhJZPhq (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:37:46 -0400 Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk ([85.233.160.19]:16922 "EHLO smtp.hosts.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231789AbhJZPhp (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:37:45 -0400 Received: from host-84-13-154-214.opaltelecom.net ([84.13.154.214] helo=[192.168.1.37]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1mfOTw-0001ul-7T; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:35:20 +0100 Message-ID: <8df2fe20-1198-ad99-34ef-f9fa50a67fa2@iee.email> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:35:20 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.2.1 Subject: Re: [Summit topic] Let's have chalk talks (part 1/?) Content-Language: en-GB To: =?UTF-8?Q?SZEDER_G=c3=a1bor?= Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , Emily Shaffer References: <20211025222648.GD2101@szeder.dev> From: Philip Oakley In-Reply-To: <20211025222648.GD2101@szeder.dev> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 25/10/2021 23:26, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 09:56:56PM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote: >> In the meantime, while chatting to a colleague about the birthday >> paradox and its relation to Bloom filters, I realised I didn't >> understand what our Bloom filters were trying to do and what they recorded. >> >> I had a look at the code and documentation, but there isn't much there >> about our Bloom filter implementation. A chalk talk could later be used >> in the same manner as the packfile discussion to show what the filters do? >> >> If there is someone who'd like to talk through what the Bloom filters >> are doing in Git then I'd be all ears. > Then perhaps you might find it's worth your while to read through > this: > > https://public-inbox.org/git/20200529085038.26008-16-szeder.dev@gmail.com/ > Thanks for the link. It's quite a size of commit message ;-)  Are there any plans to extract the 'how it works' parts into a Bloom filter doc? Philip