[Tilesathome] Proposal: Keeping tileset as one file

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Thu Jun 26 15:05:22 BST 2008


Florian Lohoff <flo at rfc822.org> writes:

> Its not 8 byte its more - But in the end it comes down whether you cache
> the leading 1-4Kbyte of every tileset file, or a central index file.
> My first guess is that in the end the approach of a single file will
> again win the race as it does not need that much kernel interaction and
> has benefits in on disk storage speed.

Do you want to use one central index file per layer?  Wouldn't that
become a bottleneck?  This file would be huge.

Matthias




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