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On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 16:01 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 3:42 PM Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote: |
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> > That git manages not to die every day based on what we throw at it is |
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> > frankly a miracle of engineering. |
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> Our repo is a linked list being constantly manipulated from the head |
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> backed by a hashed object store for the contents. For that use case |
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> it is probably the ideal data structure. Since our use case is |
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> actually the typical use case, it isn't a surprise that this was the |
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> design that was chosen... :) |
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> Computers are pretty fast when you actually use the correct algorithm... |
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Yes, computers are fast and their work is cheap. On the other hand, |
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humans are not fast and their time is expensive. Now use the power of |
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human thinking to infer this to what you're doing to this thread. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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