Re: thoughts on meta-data (was: importing entries)

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> 
> (reading data) actually (theoretically) simplifies a whole bunch of stuff:
> 
>    1) gets rid of the problem we have where metadata doesn't
>       get cached in the entry cache
>    2) gets rid of the problem where we have to implement metadata
>       parsing in every entry parser
>    3) fixes the "i want to set the mtime _IN_ my entry" problem
> 
> 

Just another thought: we can avoid a filestat on every file that has
mtime set in the metadata, which might save us enough time to almost
entirely pay for the metadata reading - assuming the date is usually
set inside the file.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com


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