[racket-dev] PLTCOMPILEDROOTS

FWIW, a zip file may not be a good format because the file index is
just a O(n) access list (no matter how many sub-directories the zip
file contains.) I didn't find any standard archive formats with O(log
n) or better performance, which is why DrDr uses a custom format:

http://jeapostrophe.github.com/blog/2012/08/13/drdr-archive/

Jay

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I guess we should try this, but I think we should keep it specific to
>> bytecode loading. That is, I don't think we should try to splice a
>> .zip-based filesystem into Racket's core filesystem operations.
>
> I would think that something along the lines of how classpaths work in
> Java would be the right direction -- ie, PLTCOLLECTS could include
> files (perhaps with a distinguished extension) in addition to
> directories, and those would be ZIP files whose internal directory
> structure was treated the way a directory entry directly in
> PLTCOLLECTS is treated.
>
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