Hey Ricardo, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis:
> These patches implement what you suggested on IRC: not repeating > entire manifest entries and their propagated inputs. This has a > dramatic impact on the size of the ‘manifest’ file and on the memory > and processing time to read it for the the use case you gave. > > The second patch goes a tiny bit further by making the ‘search-paths’ > and ‘propagated-inputs’ fields optional, shaving another ~10% on the > size of ‘manifest’ in this example. > > The second patch should be squashed with the first one (so we don’t > bump version formats a second time and duplicate code). It’s kinda > optional because it doesn’t bring much compared to the first patch and > causes a bit of extra complexity, but maybe it’s still worth keeping? > > Could you try this on your larger use cases and tell me how it goes? Did you have a chance to give it a try? Maybe I can double-check that everything’s alright and go ahead. Thanks, Ludo’.
