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From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@cscott.net>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Alon Ziv <alonz@nolaviz.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add the ability to create and retrieve delta objects
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:57:12 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505031153550.32767@cag.csail.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505030724.57827.mason@suse.com>

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Chris Mason wrote:

> your delta generator later this week.  Some quick and dirty space numbers to
> show why we need to pack the files together:

Are you accurately accounting for the cost of the extra hard/soft links 
your scheme requires?  Ie the directories get larger, lookups take 
slightly longer, etc.  Also access to a given file takes longer, and the 
deltas are referring to *other* packed files which *also* take longer to 
decompress and access...

How much better does delta-fication do, compared to just packing?
  --scott

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-03 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-03  3:57 RFC: adding xdelta compression to git Alon Ziv
2005-05-03  4:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03  4:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03  5:30   ` Davide Libenzi
2005-05-03 15:52     ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-05-03 17:35       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03 18:10         ` Davide Libenzi
2005-05-03  8:06   ` [PATCH] add the ability to create and retrieve delta objects Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03 11:24     ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 12:51       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03 15:07       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03 16:09         ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 15:57       ` C. Scott Ananian [this message]
2005-05-03 16:35         ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 14:13     ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 14:24       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03 14:37         ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 15:04           ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03 16:54             ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 14:48     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03 15:52       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-04 15:56     ` Chris Mason
2005-05-04 16:12       ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-05-04 17:44         ` Chris Mason
2005-05-04 22:03           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-04 22:43             ` Chris Mason
2005-05-05  3:25             ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-04 21:47       ` Geert Bosch
2005-05-04 22:34         ` Chris Mason
2005-05-05  3:10           ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03 12:48   ` RFC: adding xdelta compression to git Dan Holmsand
2005-05-03 15:50   ` C. Scott Ananian

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