Re: [Monotone-devel] Netsync performance improvement patch

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:16:59PM -0700, Eric Anderson wrote:
>  > I assume that a boost::circular_buffer isn't suitable since
>  > that doesn't have contiguous storage?
> 
> Yes, the rest of the monotone code makes assumes that buffers are
> contigous that the various buffers are all contigous.  In theory
> switching to entirely non-contigous buffers would be even better from
> a copy/memory usage standpoint, but that fix was going to be very
> invasive, and if this patch couldn't get in, one that changes way more
> seemed even less likely to get in.

This is a bit tangential, but could you give a pointer to some
examples of the code you mean?  I'm just curious what you mean here.

-- Nathaniel

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