[Monotone-devel] Re: monotone CVS import failed.

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> Why do you need to store the filenames/rev strings at all? Once the
> rev is in the database you don't need the strings any more and they
> are quite large, 100MB or more in my case.

The filename seems obvious, how else would I know what file a cvs_event 
is bound to? And the CVS revision is kept for informative purpose: I 
want users to be able to determine, what CVS revisions a certain 
monotone revision consists of.

I very much doubt it's more than 100MB, though. It's roughly:

(different files + different version strings) * (avg str length) +
sizeof(int) * (total cvs events) * 2

Assuming the (avg str length) is 1K (!), you could theoretically store 
more than 52K *distinct* filenames and over 13M pointers (thus over 6 M 
total cvs events) in 100 MB of memory (assuming 50% - 50% sharing 
between the two summands).

I don't think that leaves much room for optimization.

Regards

Markus