From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Liu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: two questions about the format of loose object
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:26:42 +0800
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Nick Andrew wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:00:55PM +0800, Liu Yubao wrote:
>> I did a simple benchmark on my notebook and a server in my company,
>> writing a big file to disk is faster than compressing it first and
>> writing the result out. The former's performance for reading should
>> also be better because of file cache.
> 
> In a corporate environment (and not related to git) I found the
> opposite. The disk was fairly slow (over NFS) and it was in fact
> quicker to read and write compressed files.
> 
> Nick.
> 
Ok, there must be exceptional cases, for these cases you can turn
off core.uncompressedLooseObject (if there will be this config).


Best regards,

Liu Yubao