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From: "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RAM consumption when working with the gcc repo
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 21:36:38 +0100
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On Dec 7, 2007 10:24 PM,  <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> keep in mind that that 330MB file is _very_ heavily compressed. the simple
> zlib compression is probably getting you 10:1 or 20:1 compression and the
> delta compression is a significant multiplier on top of that.
>

If the delta is good the zlib is poor and the contrary stands too.

It is very difficult to _guess_ in this cases.

Marco