Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> writes: > Why? > > (In general, explaining why you chose something is more important than > explaining what you chose)
Good educational comment. Thanks. > A tree (AST, Abstract syntax tree) can be interesting if you have some > source-to-source transformations to do on the configuration files (i.e. > edit the config files themselves). > > For read-only accesses, I would find it more natural to have a > data-structure that reflects the configuration variables themselves, not > the way they appear in the config file. ... and one important thing that was left unsaid is that the read-only accesses happen far more often than updates, so the data structure must be optimized for the read-only look-up case. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
