Re: V3 database inflation - format change proposal

"Frank Pilhofer" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.passwordsafe.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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


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