TODO list for agedu
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- - stop trying to calculate an upper bound on the index file size.
- Instead, just mmap it at initial size + delta, and periodically
- re-mmap it during index building if it grows too big. If we run
- out of address space, we'll hear about it eventually; and
- computing upper bounds given the new optimised index tends to be
- a factor of five out, which is bad because it'll lead to running
- out of theoretical address space and erroneously reporting
- failure long before we run out of it for real.
-
- we could still be using more of the information coming from
autoconf. Our config.h is defining a whole bunch of HAVE_FOOs for
particular functions (e.g. HAVE_INET_NTOA, HAVE_MEMCHR,
Unclear what the right UI would be on Windows, too;
command-line exactly as now might be considered just a
_little_ unfriendly. Or perhaps not.
+ * Disk scan procedure: the FindFirstFile / FindNextFile
+ functions to scan a directory automatically return the file
+ times along with the filenames, so there's no need to stat
+ them later. Would want to fiddle the shape of the
+ abstraction layer to reflect this.
+ Alternatively, a much easier approach would be to write a
Windows version of just the --scan-dump mode, which does a
filesystem scan via the Windows API and generates a valid
how to make the indexers pluggable at both index-generation time
and query time.
* however, now we have the cut-down version of the continuous
- index, it might be the case that the space gain is no longer
- worthwhile.
+ index, the space saving is less compelling.
~mdw / sgt / agedu / blobdiff