From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: A look at some alternative PACK file encodings Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 01:21:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20060907052155.GA31580@spearce.org> References: <44FF41F4.1090906@gmail.com> <9e4733910609061623k73086dbey4a600ecf2852c024@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: gitzilla@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 07 07:22:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLCL0-0003m4-Cp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:22:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751820AbWIGFWB (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 01:22:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751822AbWIGFWA (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 01:22:00 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:14537 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751820AbWIGFWA (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 01:22:00 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GLCKs-0007Jv-AW; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:21:58 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 52A67212693; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 01:21:56 -0400 (EDT) To: Jon Smirl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609061623k73086dbey4a600ecf2852c024@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jon Smirl wrote: > Shawn is doing some prototype work on true dictionary based > compression. I don't know how far along he is but it has potential for > taking 30% off the Mozilla pack. Not very far. I've put some work into it but got distracted by the sliding mmap window bit. So I don't have anything worth sharing yet. Which is why I've been quiet on the subject. :-) -- Shawn.