Re: [PATCH v3 08/11] refs/reftable: allow configuring restart interval

[Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>]

On 24/05/13 10:18AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> +reftable.restartInterval::
> +	The interval at which to create restart points. The reftable backend
> +	determines the restart points at file creation. Every 16 may be
> +	more suitable for smaller block sizes (4k or 8k), every 64 for larger
> +	block sizes (64k).
> ++
> +More frequent restart points reduces prefix compression and increases
> +space consumed by the restart table, both of which increase file size.
> ++
> +Less frequent restart points makes prefix compression more effective,
> +decreasing overall file size, with increased penalties for readers
> +walking through more records after the binary search step.
> ++
> +A maximum of `65535` restart points per block is supported.
> ++
> +The default value is to create restart points every 16 records. A value of `0`
> +will use the default value.

Out of curiousity, if for some reason we didn't want any prefix
compression, would the best way to do this be via setting the restart
interval to 1? I guess this means the number of references would also be
limited by the maximum number of restart points.

-Justin