On Monday 2007 July 16, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > The biggest obstacle was a thinko about the scalability. Tree objects > take free form name entries, and therefore a binary search by name is not > possible. I might be misunderstanding, but in the case of the notes tree objects isn't it true that the name entries aren't free form, but are guaranteed to be of a fixed length form: XX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX In which case you can binary search? Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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