[ On Wednesday, July 26, 2000 at 16:38:31 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Attic files
>
> The idea of moving dead files to the Attic is so that you don't even
> have to look at them in most cases. Not doing it would simplify some
> code and complicate other code; whether the net result would be better
> or worse, I cannot say.
For some common operations (eg. "cvs update") the result would be
slower, and in cases where you've got a lot of "dead" files, that would
be "worse". :-)
I think the Attic is a very necessary optimisation.....
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