Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > When auto-compacting, the reftable library packs references such that > the sizes of the tables form a geometric sequence. The factor for this > geometric sequence is hardcoded to 2 right now. We're about to expose > this as a config option though, so let's expose the factor via write > options. Hmph. It is unclear if having this as uint8_t gives us a useful enhancement, but perhaps in the future hosters may find a more aggressive geometric sequence is better for their workload or something and raise it to 3 or 4? I was actually wondering if a base smaller than 2 (e.g. fibonacci) may work better. Anyway, making it configurable is a good first step. Allowing a bit finer grained setting than just integral values can be done later if it proves necessary.
