On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> > This is definitely an area where pack v4 will bring that cost down to 
> > zero.
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> Heh. I believe that when I see it. The thing is, unless you re-generate 
> the tree object data structures, you'll have to have totally different 
> tree walkers for different tree types, and it will all be quite ugly and 
> complex. And "ugly and complex" seldom translates into "zero cost".

Well... in my opinion it is the _current_ tree walker that is quite ugly 
and complex.  It is always messier to parse strings than fixed width 
binary fields.


Nicolas
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