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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:37:50 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Geert Bosch wrote:

> One nice optimization we could do for those pesky binary large objects
> (like PDF, JPG and GZIP-ed data), is to detect such files and revert
> to compression level 0. This should be especially beneficial
> since already compressed data takes most time to compress again.

That would be a good thing indeed.


Nicolas