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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2005-12-12T18·24+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2005-12-12T18·24+0000
commit8463f27d8cd09d54648de21c747f895cdb558f83 (patch)
tree75bb48b23486d01c8891e8b259b344dbdafc6b86 /misc
parent18bbcb1214caf75c0190e610d7eb34e971366c7c (diff)
* Fix NIX-23: quadratic complexity in maintaining the referers
  mapping.  The referer table is replaced by a referrer table (note
  spelling fix) that stores each referrer separately.  That is,
  instead of having

    referer[P] = {Q_1, Q_2, Q_3, ...}

  we store

    referer[(P, Q_1)] = ""
    referer[(P, Q_2)] = ""
    referer[(P, Q_3)] = ""
    ...

  To find the referrers of P, we enumerate over the keys with a value
  lexicographically greater than P.  This requires the referrer table
  to be stored as a B-Tree rather than a hash table.

  (The tuples (P, Q) are stored as P + null-byte + Q.)

  Old Nix databases are upgraded automatically to the new schema.

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