Please study issue #256 to discuss at TC #26

["Larry Golding (Myriad Consulting Inc)" <v-lgold@microsoft.com>]

Scott Louvau filed Issue #256, “Make Run.Files an array”. In the case of the large, real-world SARIF file that Scott studied, this change reduced the SARIF file size by 36% and reduced memory usage by 10s of MB. This isn’t as disruptive a change as it might seem.

 

I added this issue to the preliminary agenda for TC #26. To prepare for the discussion, please read the discussion thread in the issue. That thread does have a couple of blind alleys in it, but the most important comments are:

 

1. Scott’s original description of the issue.
2. Scott’s follow-on comment explaining how “searchability” works when you replace a dictionary with an array.
3. My proposal at the bottom, which summarizes some lengthy offline discussions I had with Michael.

 

Thanks,

Larry