[Monotone-devel] Re: Improving the performance of annotate

[Graydon Hoare]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> I don't quite follow this part.  Above you seemed to say we would just
> re-code the contents of revisions into db rows; but revisions contain
> no information that lets you "skip between revs that actually affect"
> a given file.  I guess you store some more information than that?
> Like what?

Sorry; "re-code roster deltas as structured db rows". Revisions still 
stored as plaintext.

(your further arguments about marking-and-skipping, alas, are too well 
formed for me to add anything coherent about, after this long 
bleary-eyed debugging session)

-graydon