From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Huge win, compressing a window of delta runs as a unit
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:15:53 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608171413160.11359@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910608171022w25886d13ka40e5752fec4680b@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 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.
I didn't say it isn't costly. I said that it isn't _that_ costly to the
point of bringing down a server.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-16 17:20 Huge win, compressing a window of delta runs as a unit Jon Smirl
2006-08-17 4:07 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-17 7:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-08-17 8:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-08-17 14:36 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-17 15:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-08-17 16:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-17 17:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-08-17 17:22 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-17 18:15 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2006-08-17 17:17 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-17 17:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-17 18:06 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-17 17:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-17 18:03 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-17 18:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-18 4:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-18 12:53 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-18 16:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-18 16:56 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-21 3:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-21 6:46 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-21 10:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-08-21 16:23 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-18 13:15 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-18 13:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-08-18 13:50 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-19 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-08-18 16:25 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-21 7:06 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-21 14:07 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-21 15:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-21 16:14 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-21 17:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-21 17:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-21 18:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
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