Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:27:40 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Magic symlinks redux Message-ID: <86ljyof5df.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20080822161314.GE57443@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> (Brooks Davis's message of "Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:13:14 -0500") References: <g8kv7v$sp2$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080822150020.GA57443@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <9bbcef730808220802pa84b597u457100a23b03a80c@mail.gmail.com> <20080822153945.GC57443@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <9bbcef730808220853q22666b44n5ca2b7add991191f@mail.gmail.com> <20080822161314.GE57443@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> writes: > One other option we discussed at the devsummit was requiring that the fir= st > character of a variant symlink be special to reduce parsing overhead. I.= e. > requiring that variant symlinks start with @ or % or something. A much tidier option (which was also discussed) is to set a bit on the cnp if the symlink is found to be variant when it first enters the cache. This way, we don't penalize non-variant symlinks that begin with a @ or %. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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