Re: Yet another base64 patch

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: 2005-04-15 11:07:21
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, bert hubert wrote:
> 
>>It is too easy to get into a O(N^2) situation. Git may be able to deal with
>>it but you may hurt yourself when making backups, or if you ever want to
>>share your tree (possibly with yourself) over the network.
> 
> 
> Even something as simple as "ls -l" has been known to have O(n**2)  
> behaviour for big directories.
> 

Ultimately the question is: do we care about old (broken) filesystems?

	-hpa
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Received on Fri Apr 15 11:08:13 2005

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : 2005-04-15 12:56:42 EST