Re: Huge win, compressing a window of delta runs as a unit

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-08-18 03:22:15
On 8/17/06, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> Nah.  The only overhead for a server to feed an "old" pack format from a
> "new" pack file is to inflate and deflate some data.  That is not _that_
> costly.

It is costly because the Mozilla pack is going to inflate from 295MB
to 845MB. It will take you much longer to download an extra 500MB than
upgrading your client would take.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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