[Tilesathome] Proposal: Keeping tileset as one file

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Fri Jun 6 12:05:38 BST 2008


Hi,

> I think browsing will get slightly faster too:
>  - extra overhead for one tile is only 4KB, it's propably less than
> overhead for getting file in filesystem with millions of files

I disagree. Apache is extremely efficient at delivering files.  
Internally there's even operating system support ("take this file  
handle and this network socket, then stream out contents"). Your  
proposed architecture would at the very best (if done as a C/C++  
module) achieve the same performance, but is very likely to incur  
extra overhead. If, god forbid, done in PHP or something like it,  
data will have to be copied...

Bye
Frederik

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