Dynamic hash table size (with static has load)

Matt McCutchen hashproduct at verizon.net
Mon Feb 27 03:05:32 GMT 2006


On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 18:52 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> This would be such an improvement for really large files

If the new hash table can handle really large numbers of blocks really
well, it might actually be practical for rsync to load all files in the
transfer into the hash table at the beginning to take advantage of
inter-file block matches.  But that's for version 10 or something.  :)
-- 
Matt McCutchen
hashproduct at verizon.net
http://hashproduct.metaesthetics.net/



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