On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Greg Stark
<greg.stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Heikki had a clever idea earlier which was to have two crc checks- one which
> skips the hint bits and one dedicated to hint bits. If the second doesn't
> match we clear all the hint bits.
Sounds overcomplicated to me.
> The problem with that is that skipping the hint bits for the main crc would
> slow it down severely. It would make a lot of sense if the hint bits were
> all in a contiguous block of memory but I can't see how to make that add up.
Agreed.
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