From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Subject: Re: [Summit topic] Let's have chalk talks (part 1/?)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:35:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8df2fe20-1198-ad99-34ef-f9fa50a67fa2@iee.email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211025222648.GD2101@szeder.dev>
On 25/10/2021 23:26, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 09:56:56PM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:
>> In the meantime, while chatting to a colleague about the birthday
>> paradox and its relation to Bloom filters, I realised I didn't
>> understand what our Bloom filters were trying to do and what they recorded.
>>
>> I had a look at the code and documentation, but there isn't much there
>> about our Bloom filter implementation. A chalk talk could later be used
>> in the same manner as the packfile discussion to show what the filters do?
>>
>> If there is someone who'd like to talk through what the Bloom filters
>> are doing in Git then I'd be all ears.
> Then perhaps you might find it's worth your while to read through
> this:
>
> https://public-inbox.org/git/20200529085038.26008-16-szeder.dev@gmail.com/
>
Thanks for the link. It's quite a size of commit message ;-) Are there
any plans to extract the 'how it works' parts into a Bloom filter doc?
Philip
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-26 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-22 7:51 [Summit topic] Let's have chalk talks (part 1/?) Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-25 20:56 ` Philip Oakley
2021-10-25 21:20 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-26 9:45 ` Philip Oakley
2021-10-25 22:26 ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-10-26 15:35 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
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