On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 02:29:14PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: > > The keys are guaranteed to be in sorted order, so we could use binary > > search. Do we have any string-to-string maps that tend to get big? > > (If we do implement binary search then I'd put it in a helper > > function.) > > If we're going to go that route, I wonder if it makes sense to replace > the string maps with shash's. That certainly would be a lot more > usable. I don't know enough about the database protocol to say > whether or not that's a good idea though.
The database protocol and IDL format are fairly well separated. We can use (almost) whatever data structure we want in the IDL without changing the DB protocol. > For the work I've been doing, 10 - 15 in an other_config is fairly > common. I'm not sure if that's enough to justify optimizing it > though. It's something we can think about it in the future of course. I think it's not worth doing any extra work at this point. Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
