Duplication of dirent names in JFFS2 summary

Artem B. Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Fri May 19 07:58:51 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 12:53 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 02:01 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > And would we benefit by using a variable-length encoding of the integers
> > in the summary entries? We're far from being CPU-bound when we eat
> > these, surely?
> 
> Thinking of something vaguely like UTF-8, but more optimal. Each byte
> would convey seven bits of information, and the top bit would indicate
> whether there's a further byte to be added.
Why do you think it really worth it ?

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Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.





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