Re: A look at some alternative PACK file encodings

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-09-07 09:23:16
On 9/6/06, A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> wrote:
> TREE objects do not delta or deflate well.

I can understand why they don't deflate, the path names are pretty
much unique and the sha1s are incompressible. By why don't they delta
well? Does sorting them by size mess up the delta process?

Shawn is doing some prototype work on true dictionary based
compression. I don't know how far along he is but it has potential for
taking 30% off the Mozilla pack.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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