[Monotone-devel] Re: Speedup chances

[Lapo Luchini]

Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Another thing to keep in mind: instead of trying hard to squeeze out the 
> last bits of performance from the decoder, it might rather be possible 
> to avoid en- and decoding steps completely by using a binary roster 
> format - thus also storing binary hashes.

That's my line too, and also of thm as far as I understood.
Problem is: changing the roster format is more difficult than optimizing 
de {en,de}coder of course ;-)

   Lapo