zooko writes: > On Jan 16, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > Better to use zip format than tar, as zip has an index (that's why > > it's used by jar files and Python eggs, IIRC). Doesn't 7zip have a > > full archive mode like zip? > > Yes, it does. It didn't occur to me to use it for these > measurements, as I'm so used to tar. :-)
Well, actually what I was thinking was that there are often performance advantages in common operations to having everything in one file. Cf. the "Linus laughs last" Mercurial-is-faster-than-git threads. That lasted only until Linus came up with a packed format. (Granted, for Linus it wasn't that easy because he needed to convert the git DAG into an efficient serialization, and a similar issue might apply to Darcs.) I don't understand slurpies, but I wondered if you couldn't slurp a zipfile as easily as you can a directory by wrapping an appropriate library. _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
