Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes: > NOTE! Every SINGLE one of those heuristics are just totally made up by > yours truly, and have no testing behind them. They're more of the type > "that sounds about right" than "this is how it must be". As mentioned, > Nico has already been playing with the heuristics - but he wanted better > packs, not better CPU usage, so he went the other way from what you would > want to try.. I haven't looked at Nico's original or updated code closely at all, but two things come to mind. (1) if we could tell the particular data is intrinsically diff_delta unfriendly and diff_delta would waste too much time when tried to delta against almost _any_ other blob, then it might help to give an interface in diff-delta.c for the caller to check for such a blob without even trying diff_delta. (2) otherwise, if diff_delta could detect it would spend too many cycles to finish its work for a particular input early on, we might want it to bail out instead of trying a complete job. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Feb 25 07:53:54 2006
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