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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff-delta: produce optimal pack data
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:48:54 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602241647250.31162@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602241613030.31162@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> If blocks are hashed evenly the cost of  producing a delta is at most 
> O(n+m) where n and m are the size of the reference and target files 
> respectively.  In other words, with good data set the cost is linear.
> 
> But if many blocks from the reference buffer do hash to the same bucket 
> then for each block in the target file many blocks from the reference 
> buffer have to be tested against, making it tend towards O(n^m) which is 
> pretty highly exponential.

Well, actually this is rather O(n*m) not O(n^m), but bad nevertheless.


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-24 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-22  1:45 [PATCH] diff-delta: produce optimal pack data Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-24  8:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-24 15:37   ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-24 23:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-24 17:44   ` Carl Baldwin
2006-02-24 17:56     ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-24 18:35       ` Carl Baldwin
2006-02-24 18:57         ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-24 19:23           ` Carl Baldwin
2006-02-24 20:02             ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-24 20:40               ` Carl Baldwin
2006-02-24 21:12                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-24 22:50                   ` Carl Baldwin
2006-02-25  3:53                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-24 20:02             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-24 20:19               ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-24 20:53               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-24 21:39                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-24 21:48                   ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2006-02-25  0:45                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-25  3:07                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-25  4:05                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-25  5:10                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-02-25  5:35                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-03-07 23:48                             ` [RFH] zlib gurus out there? Junio C Hamano
2006-03-08  0:59                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-08  1:22                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-08  2:00                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-08  9:46                                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-03-08 10:45                               ` [PATCH] write_sha1_file(): Perform Z_FULL_FLUSH between header and data Sergey Vlasov
2006-03-08 11:04                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-08 14:17                                   ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-02-25 19:18                           ` [PATCH] diff-delta: produce optimal pack data Linus Torvalds
2006-02-24 18:49       ` Carl Baldwin
2006-02-24 19:03         ` Nicolas Pitre

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