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authorPaul Frazee <pfrazee@gmail.com>2018-10-24 11:49:49 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-10-24 11:49:49 -0500
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Merge pull request #48 from yoshuawuyts/004-reviewHEADmaster
Fix typos in 004-hyperdb
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-rw-r--r--proposals/0004-hyperdb.md23
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/proposals/0004-hyperdb.md b/proposals/0004-hyperdb.md
index d551b64..393c997 100644
--- a/proposals/0004-hyperdb.md
+++ b/proposals/0004-hyperdb.md
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ this abstraction layer.
*This section describes Hyperdb's interface and behavior in the abstract for
application programmers. It is not intended to be exact documentation of any
-particular implementation (including the reference Javascript module).*
+particular implementation (including the reference JavaScript module).*
Hyperdb is structured to be used much like a traditional hierarchical
filesystem. A value can be written and read at locations like `/foo/bar/baz`,
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ equivalent. A key can be both a "path segment" and key at the same time; e.g.,
**Values** can be any binary blob, including empty (of zero length). For
example, values could be UTF-8 encoded strings, JSON encoded objects, protobuf
-messages, or a raw `uint64` integer (of either endian-ness). Length is the only
+messages, or a raw `uint64` integer (of either endianness). Length is the only
form of type or metadata stored about the value; deserialization and validation
are left to library and application developers.
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ The Entry protobuf message schema is:
message Feed {
required bytes key = 1;
}
-
+
required string key = 1;
optional bytes value = 2;
required bytes trie = 3;
@@ -159,9 +159,8 @@ The Entry protobuf message schema is:
optional bytes contentFeed = 7;
}
-Some fields are are specific to the multi-writer features described in their
-own DEP and mentioned only partially here. The fields common to both message
-types are:
+Some fields are specific to the multi-writer features described in their own DEP
+and mentioned only partially here. The fields common to both message types are:
- `key`: UTF-8 key that this node describes. Leading and trailing forward
slashes (`/`) are always stripped before storing in protobuf.
@@ -194,7 +193,7 @@ must be defined, so the new message can be referred to via `inflated`. In this
case the entry is refereed to as an "inflated entry".
-## Path Hashing
+## Path Hashing
[path_hashing]: #path_hashing
Every key path has component-wise fixed-size hash representation that is used
@@ -202,7 +201,7 @@ by the trie. The concatenation of all path hashes yields a "path hash array"
for the entire key. Note that analogously to a hash map data structure, there
can be more than one key (string) with the same key hash in the same database
with no problems: the hash points to a linked-list "bucket" of Entries, which
-can be iterated over linearly to find the correct value.
+can be iterated over linearly to find the correct value.
The path hash is represented by an array of bytes. Elements are 2-bit encoded
(values 0, 1, 2, 3), except for an optional terminating element which has value
@@ -218,7 +217,7 @@ algorithm is included in the libsodium library in the form of the
`crypto_shorthash()` function. A 16-byte "secret" key is required; for this use
case we use all zeros.
-When converting the 8-bytehash to an array of 2-bit bytes, the ordering is
+When converting the 8-byte hash to an array of 2-bit bytes, the ordering is
proceed byte-by-byte, and for each take the two lowest-value bits (aka, `hash &
0x3`) as byte index `0`, the next two bits (aka, `hash & 0xC`) as byte index
`1`, etc. When concatenating path hashes into a longer array, the first
@@ -502,7 +501,7 @@ Now we `db.put('/a/c', 'hello')` and expect a second Entry:
{ key: 'a/c',
value: 'hello',
trie:
- [ , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
+ [ , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
, , { element: 2, feed: 0, index: 0 } ] }
```
@@ -600,7 +599,7 @@ is:
```
{ key: 'a/c',
value: ,
- trie: [ , { val: 1, feed: 0, index: 2 }, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
+ trie: [ , { val: 1, feed: 0, index: 2 }, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
, , { val: 1, feed: 0, index: 0 } ] }
```
@@ -747,7 +746,7 @@ concerns are explicitly out of scope for this DEP.
[changelog]: #changelog
As of March 2018, Mathias Buus (@mafintosh) is leading development of a hyperdb
-nodejs module on [github](https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperdb), which is the
+Node.js module on [github](https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperdb), which is the
basis for this DEP.
- 2017-12-06: Stephen Whitmore (@noffle) publishes `ARCHITECTURE.md` overview