On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > This is definitely an area where pack v4 will bring that cost down to > > zero. > > Heh. I believe that when I see it. The thing is, unless you re-generate > the tree object data structures, you'll have to have totally different > tree walkers for different tree types, and it will all be quite ugly and > complex. And "ugly and complex" seldom translates into "zero cost". Well... in my opinion it is the _current_ tree walker that is quite ugly and complex. It is always messier to parse strings than fixed width binary fields. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html