[Ifile-dev] Re: performance improvements

[Kai Großjohann]

Dave Marquardt <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:15:32 +0100, address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) said:
>
> Kai> Dave Marquardt <address@hidden> writes:
>>> I guess another option would be to invent some sort of portable binary
>>> database format, but that's pretty far down on my list right now.
>
> Kai> I guess that most machines can convert to/from network byte order.
>
> Not exactly a high performance operation, though.  We could even use
> XDR, but again, not a high performance operation.

I don't know what ifile stores, but if it is anything like inverted
files, another idea would be to use the inverted file compression
algorithms from the Managing Gigabytes folks.  I think these produce
machine-independent files, but if not it could probably fairly easily
be achieved.

The idea is that the additional computation spent on compression is
compensated for by the saved I/O.
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