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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Huge win, compressing a window of delta runs as a unit
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:

> I attached Shawn's code. He is gone until Monday and can't defend it.

I will have a look at it next week as I'll be gone for the weekend as 
well.

> Do note that I am running this on the Mozilla CVS which is over 10
> years old. Some of the files have over 2,000 deltas. I average 10
> deltas per file but the distribution is not at all even. Many files
> get checked-in and never changed, for example 1000's of images.

This is IMHO more evidence that something is wrong with the results 
you obtained.


Nicolas