Re: V3 database inflation - format change proposal
"Frank Pilhofer" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.passwordsafe.devel |
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:24:57 -0500, Rony Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > > An interesting issue arose while playing with the V3 format: > > A database with ~400 entries takes ~40kbytes to store in the V2 format. > The same data stored in V3 takes up ~62k - over 50% more! > > A quick analysis shows that most of the difference is due to the 8 > additional wasted bytes in the first block of each field (8 fields per > record). > > Therefore, I'm thinking of modifying the field format as follows: > Sure, go ahead. If this does not make the implementation much more complicated and/or ugly, it sounds like a good idea. PDAs are probably grateful for any breaks in wasted CPU cycles. Frank -- Frank Pilhofer, [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642