2015-03-10 9:28 GMT+01:00 Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr>: > > > > But stiil, the changes allow you a recovery in case of a crash. It has > some valuables side effects. > > > > Yes, it was genius to merge both source storage and transaction log 30 > years ago... today we would > not do that. >
Wouldn't we? Or would we do a more compact log format, optimizing by the knowledge of what is in the image and what is inside the package repositories? i.e. I'm not sure that the fundamental is wrong. Just that the environment is a bit different. I toyed a long time ago with the idea of having a git as a replacement of the changes. On every method change, you commit... Has a way of compacting by itself the changes. Largely overkill :) Now, I could also see a scheme based on MC, where the source of a method is fetched from the package (with an ast cache, if needed). Not very difficult to do. But it's not very grandiose. Just a bit of software engineering. Not interesting ;) Thierry
