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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: cleaner/better zlib sources?
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> Hacked up test case below ...

This one seems to do benchmarking with 8MB buffers if I read it right 
(didn't try).

The normal size for the performance-critical git objects are in the couple 
of *hundred* bytes. Not kilobytes, and not megabytes.

The most performance-critical objects for uncompression are commits and 
trees. At least for the kernel, the average size of a tree object is 678
bytes. And that's ignoring the fact that most of them are then deltified, 
so about 80% of them are likely just a ~60-byte delta.

		Linus