[tor-dev] Comparing Stem, metrics-lib, and zoossh

[Damian Johnson]

> What you could try, though, is extend Zoossh to parse tarballs rather
> than directories.  This is more than 2 times faster in metrics-lib,
> and it doesn't clutter your hard disk with thousands or millions of
> tiny files.

For what it's worth processing tarballs rather than flat files made a
huge difference for Stem as well (tempted to say it was a 5x
improvement). Since you care so much about Zoossh's speed this could
be a great way to make it even faster. :)