[Monotone-devel] Thought on improving monotone perceived performance

[Joel Crisp]

It just occurred to me that most modern file systems provide a
mechanism to monitor a tree of files for write activity.

Would it make sense to provide a monitor for files under monotone
control which would queue a changed file for a low prioirty background
task. The task would then fingerprint it into a cache of current fingerprints?
Then come a commit etc operation monotone could first check the cache of
fingerprints and not have to recalculate them during the operation.

Thoughts?

Joel