Clément Pascutto

Reporting an offline discussion with @CraigFe: Given the current datastructure (a simple array) used for the fanout, it is unlikely that we can create a fanout from an existing one,...

That would indeed be possible. Please note that this also leads to more variance, in other words, less predictability (particularly for worst case scenarios), and we also have to consider...

> * when we want to merge `log` in datak we k-merge it with all the dataj with `j < k` > > * `log` is always merged in the...

A note about these binomial data files: in practice it also degrades the performance of additions in the index by `irmin-pack`, since we always ensure an entry is absent before...