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From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v6] generalizing sorted-array handling
Date: Wed,  8 Dec 2010 23:51:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291848695-24601-1-git-send-email-ydirson@altern.org> (raw)

I hope the improvements to the usage syntax in this version would help
to get more feedback.  I don't plan to do much more structural work on
this, unless reviewers complain.  I want to get my focus back to
bulk-rename/builk-rm patches, which will make heavy use of this API.

Changes from v5:

* moved doc to Documentation/api-sorted-array.txt as suggested by
  Jonathan Nieder, made it a bit more comprehensive as well.

* changed API with:
  * renamed low-level wrapper-decl macros with a leading underscore
  * provide high-level wrapper-decl macros for everyday use, which
    declare the required generic funcs for use (as static funcs)

Those high-level macros make the entry points more numerousas
previously noted, but we gain much in usage clarity, as well as
consistent API (no more argument differences between macros of a
single level)

By using those macros we lose the control we had on all the
intermediate funcs, but that should not be much of a problem.


Notes on current API:

* The macro names are a bit heavy-weight.  Better ideas welcome.

* could gain a dealloc API, to minimize the explicit use of the _nr
  and _alloc vars


The following binary-search occurences were not converted:

* read-cache.c::index_name_pos has widely-used API with 2 low-coupled
  cmp/init params: sorted-array could be generalized at the cost of
  using stdarg, but is it worth it ?

* pack-revindex.c::find_pack_revindex is a bit special and needs more
  thought

* cache-tree.c::subtree_pos and sha1_file::find_pack_entry_one too

* sha1_lookup.c stuff probably too special

             reply	other threads:[~2010-12-08 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-08 22:51 Yann Dirson [this message]
2010-12-08 22:51 ` [PATCH 1/6] Introduce sorted-array binary-search function Yann Dirson
2010-12-10 22:29   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-30  0:40     ` Yann Dirson
2010-12-30  1:06       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-12-30 10:49         ` Yann Dirson
2010-12-08 22:51 ` [PATCH 2/6] Convert diffcore-rename's rename_dst to the new sorted-array API Yann Dirson
2010-12-10 22:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-08 22:51 ` [PATCH 3/6] Convert diffcore-rename's rename_src " Yann Dirson
2010-12-08 22:51 ` [PATCH 4/6] Convert pack-objects.c " Yann Dirson
2010-12-08 22:51 ` [PATCH 5/6] Use sorted-array API for commit.c's commit_graft Yann Dirson
2010-12-08 22:51 ` [PATCH 6/6] [RFC] subvert sorted-array to replace binary-search in unpack-objects Yann Dirson
2010-12-10 23:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-10 23:22 ` [PATCH v6] generalizing sorted-array handling Junio C Hamano
2010-12-30  0:01   ` Yann Dirson

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