On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Eric Kow wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 21:39:47 +0000, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: >> It turns out you're exactly right about this; it is a significant >> slowdown, presumably because of hash collisions. > > Would increasing the number of characters hashed, say to 60, > sufficiently reduce the risk of hash collisions, while still > achieving the intended effect of this patch?
It's possible, but I suspect it wouldn't make that much difference if any, and we'd have to benchmark it on a lot of repos to be confident it was a good idea. Ganesh _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
