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From: "Morten Welinder" <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Something is broken in repack
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> Here's another observation, the gcc objects are larger. Kernel has
> 650K objects in 190MB, gcc has 870K objects in 330MB. Average gcc
> object is 30% larger. How should the average kernel developer
> interpret this?

Could this be explained by the ChangeLog file?  It's large; it has tons of
revisions; it is a prime candidate for delta compression.

Morten