[Zope-dev] RE: [ZC] 365/ 2 Reject "metadata in Catalog is space inefficient"

[Chris Withers]

Toby Dickenson wrote:
> 
> Note that this scheme may not necessarily give runtime performance
> benefits. Loading the reverse index data may not be any faster than
> loading metadata.

I'm betting in a lot of cases it'll be a damn site slower.

MetaData is specifically designed to be real quick to load. For the small extra space
usage (how much _does_ disk space, or RAM for that matter, cost nowadays?! ;-), I'm more
than happy to take the speed win...

cheers,

Chris