From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alex Riesen" Subject: Re: Compression and dictionaries Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:48:47 +0200 Message-ID: <81b0412b0608140048s2dae66edj4af76a6cd564af7d@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910608132037t4297c3bbq9b0cd6ebaa03b979@mail.gmail.com> <20060814035603.GB18667@spearce.org> <9e4733910608132107j7bca0271g360de3447febbf51@mail.gmail.com> <20060814041705.GD18667@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jon Smirl" , git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 14 09:49:03 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 1GCXBz-0001ae-Nl for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:49:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751921AbWHNHsz (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:48:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751892AbWHNHsu (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:48:50 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]:8970 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751882AbWHNHst (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:48:49 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a4so1639328nfc for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:48:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=X2zsDMNtcfe+evR8wHV+MLqK4XTwjRWw/F/AWg8PuNuKiEqw4ufVHgrOV0kT/w1ogLtuIZPal1ksaxvv8nfYFOPFVmaBznL/W088sYwtGtrhBLvoaWDqGtraKveUV5eH/nMRGTj0kg9Vgwmf8iBhKHwpCdEwx2bbAd+2fDrr0DM= Received: by 10.78.140.17 with SMTP id n17mr3141657hud; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:48:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.160.12 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:48:47 -0700 (PDT) To: "Shawn Pearce" In-Reply-To: <20060814041705.GD18667@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 8/14/06, Shawn Pearce wrote: > > A fixed dictionary could conceivably take 5-10% off the size of each entry. > > Could be an interesting experiment to see if that's really true > for common loads (e.g. the kernel repo). I don't think anyone has > tried it. BTW, kenel repo rapidly becomes "less than common load" for git ;)