The new data model is supposed to solve a few problems with ncdu 1.x's
'struct dir':
- Reduce memory overhead,
- Fix extremely slow counting of hard links in some scenarios
(issue #121)
- Add support for counting 'shared' data with other directories
(issue #36)
Quick memory usage comparison of my root directory with ~3.5 million
files (normal / extended mode):
ncdu 1.15.1: 379M / 451M
new (unaligned): 145M / 178M
new (aligned): 155M / 200M
There's still a /lot/ of to-do's left before this is usable, however,
and there's a bunch of issues I haven't really decided on yet, such as
which TUI library to use.
Backporting this data model to the C version of ncdu is also possible,
but somewhat painful. Let's first see how far I get with Zig.
POD is somewhat more simple and flexible. I now use ncdu.pod to generate
a nicely formatted manual page on the ncdu homepage, rather than
displaying a rendering of ncdu.1 formatted in a monospace font.
The tarball will still contain an ncdu.1, so there's no extra dependency
on pod2man. (Unless you clone from git, since ncdu.1 isn't in the repo)
