Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : andrew clarke
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Sat Nov 09 2002 06:59 am

Hi andrew.

05-Nov-02 20:46:16, andrew clarke wrote to Scott Little


 ac> Tue 2002-11-05 17:54, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew
 ac> clarke:

 ac>>> The hierachy is only important when it comes down to default
 ac>>> mail routing, and politics. Parsing software should be able to
 ac>>> handle

  >> Thing is, this format requires at least two scans of the nodelist
  >> to find a node and it's uplink.  The only shortcut is to assume an
  >> uplink of /0 for normal nodes.

 ac> Or one pass, then an in-memory search.  I don't think this is a
 ac> big problem.

it is... code that does that may break as the nodelist grows... (wishful
thinking I guess, but potentially borken code has caused problems in the
past.) if you use database technology like a disk-based index (eg a B+ tree)
then those probelms aren't.

 -=> Bye <=-

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