↳ In-reply-to » Another interesting side effect of changing from content-based addressing to location-based addressing is that switching from 7-byte keys to 2025-character keys for 3.5 million entries would expand the database size from 24.5 MB to about 7.09 GB—an increase of roughly 7.06 GB!

@prologic@twtxt.net A factor of 5 is hard to believe, to be honest. Especially disk usage. I know nothing about the internals of yarnd, but still.

If this constitutes a hard “no” to the proposal, then I think we don’t need to discuss it further.