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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why do base objects appear behind the delta in packs?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:58:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed1kn3$c3r$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060829134233.GA21335@spearce.org

Shawn Pearce wrote:

> From a data locality perspective putting the base object before
> or after the delta shouldn't matter, as either way the delta
> is useless without the base.  So placing the base immediately
> before the delta should perform just as well as placing it after.
> Either way the OS should have the base in cache by the time the
> delta is being accessed.

_Should_ perform? Have you got any measurements of speed of creating "base
before delta" pack, and reading objects from this kind of pack?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-29 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-29 13:42 Why do base objects appear behind the delta in packs? Shawn Pearce
2006-08-29 14:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-29 14:58 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-08-29 16:27   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-29 17:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-29 17:44       ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-29 18:16         ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-08-29 18:32           ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-29 19:23             ` Jon Smirl

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