[ZODB-Dev] [fsIndex] surprizing documentation -- inefficiency?

[Dieter Maurer]

"ZODB.fsIndex" tells us in its source code documentation that it splits 
the 8 byte oid into a 6 byte prefix and a two byte suffix and
represents the index by an "OOBTree(prefix -> fsBucket(suffix -> position))"

It explains that is uses "fsBucket" (instead of a full tree) because
the "suffix -> position" would contain at most 256 entries.

This explanation surprises me a bit: why should the bucket contain
only 256 rather than 256 * 256 (= 64.000) entries?


If the assumption is wrong (i.e. the "fsBucket" can contain up to
64.000 entries), is the implementation inefficient (because of that)?


-- 
Dieter