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Diffstat (limited to 'proposals')
| -rw-r--r-- | proposals/0000-hyperdb.md | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/proposals/0000-hyperdb.md b/proposals/0000-hyperdb.md index 26411ff..4663d3e 100644 --- a/proposals/0000-hyperdb.md +++ b/proposals/0000-hyperdb.md @@ -386,8 +386,9 @@ N`). In the encoded field, there will be `M` concatanated bytestrings of the form: - trie index (varint), followed by... -- bucket bitfield (packed in a varint), encoding which of the 4 values at this - node of the trie have pointers, followed by one or more... +- bucket bitfield (packed in a varint), encoding which of the 5 values (4 + values if the index is not modulo 32) at this node of the trie have pointers, + followed by one or more... - pointer sets, each referencing an entry at (feed index, entry index): - feed index (varint, with a extra "more pointers at this value" low bit, encoded as `feed_index << 1 | more_bit`) @@ -433,21 +434,22 @@ For a more complex example, consider the same path hash, but the trie: ``` [ , { val: 1, feed: 0, index: 1; val: 2, feed: 5, index: 3; val: 3, feed: 6, index: 98 }, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - , , , , , { val: 0, feed: 0, index, 23; val: 0, feed: 1, index: 17 ] + , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , + { val: 4, feed: 0, index, 23; val: 4, feed: 1, index: 17 ] ``` Now `M` is 2. The first bytestring chunk will be: - index varint is `1` (second element in the trie array) -- bitfield is `0b1110` (varint 9): there are three pointer sets +- bitfield is `0b01110` (varint 9): there are three pointer sets - first pointer set is (`feed=0 << 1 | 0`, `index=1`) or (varint 2, varint 1) - second pointer set is (`feed=5 << 1 | 0`, `index=3`) or (varint 10, varint 3) - third pointer set is (`feed=6 << 1 | 0`, `index=98`) or (varint 12, varint 98) the second bytestring chunk would be: -- index varint is `37` (38th element in the trie array) -- btifield is `0b0001` (varint 1); there is a single pointer set... but it +- index varint is `64` (65th element in the trie array; the terminating value) +- btifield is `0b10000` (varint 1); there is a single pointer set... but it contains a hash collision, so there are two pointers - first pointer is (`feed=0` << 1 | 1`, `index=23`) or (varint 1, varint=23); note the `more` bit is set high! @@ -459,7 +461,7 @@ the second bytestring chunk would be: The overall bytestring would be: ``` -[0x01, 0x09, 0x02, 0x01, 0x0A, 0x03, 0x0C, 0x62, 0x25, 0x1, 0x01, 0x17, 0x02, 0x11] +[0x01, 0x09, 0x02, 0x01, 0x0A, 0x03, 0x0C, 0x62, 0x40, 0x10, 0x01, 0x17, 0x02, 0x11] ``` |