Re: [htdig3-dev] Moving towards release


Gilles Detillieux (grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca)
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:55:21 -0600 (CST)


According to Geoff Hutchison:
> This weekend I'm going to start in on the documentation updates. Much of it
> has been taken care of by Gilles and Hans-Peter and all. But this means I
> probably won't get a chance to move the compression stuff in DocumentRef.cc
> to only act on the DocHead methods.
>
> So... Does anyone (Randy perhaps?) want to submit a patch to move
> compression out of the Serialize/Deserialize methods and move them to
> DocHead? ;-) It should be pretty simple and the move should ensure we only
> compress/decompress that field when necessary. The speedup should be
> significant and the hit on compression ratios should be pretty small.
>
> Thanks in advance,

Another small change I'd suggest to the compression stuff would be not
to statically allocate the c_buffer, but instead dynamically allocate
it the first time you need to compress or uncompress. 60K is a fair
bit of static data to sit around if you're not using it.

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