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From: "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH WIP] sha1-lookup: make selection of 'middle' less aggressive
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:04:19 +0100
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On Dec 30, 2007 10:49 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>
> The cost of the key comparison done in each round is
> insignificant compared to the actual cost of accessing the
> object data through zlib.

Sorry to ask, but just out of curiosity, what were the reasons to
choose zlib compression algorithm among the possible ones?

There is a thread where this has been discussed in the past? Sorry to
ask but I didn't find such a thread myself.

Thanks
Marco