Greg Stein wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Julian Foad <julianf...@apache.org> wrote: >> On 12 November 2015 at 17:11, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> A quick perusal shows that this model reads entire files into memory. >>> That isn't workable. >> >> Of course reading entire files into memory isn't workable for a real >> product, yes, well spotted! But dealing with the file text content is >> ancillary to the element-tracking principles that this demo is >> demonstrating. Those aspects don't depend on reading the full file >> text into memory. That's just one prototyping shortcut among many. > > While I agree with that generally, I think it needs to be considered. > > In Ev1, the driver gave the receiver a window handler, and the receiver > pushed content back to the driver. > > In Ev2, the driver gives the receiver a stream, and the receiver pulls > content as needed. > > That change in data flow was *huge*. Lots of our code had been set up to > assume certain push/pull directions, and had to be rejiggered to cope with > the flow change. > > As a result of that experience, I think simply carrying around content > misses a key piece of the puzzle.
I agree it's a key piece of the overall Subversion architecture. I'm not planning to reinvent anything here: I presume we'll choose the Ev2 way. - Julian
