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From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Huge win, compressing a window of delta runs as a unit
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On 8/17/06, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> Nah.  The only overhead for a server to feed an "old" pack format from a
> "new" pack file is to inflate and deflate some data.  That is not _that_
> costly.

It is costly because the Mozilla pack is going to inflate from 295MB
to 845MB. It will take you much longer to download an extra 500MB than
upgrading your client would take.

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Jon Smirl
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