Re: Something is broken in repack

From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 10, 2007, 20:16 UTC
Message-ID: <118833cc0712101216x989e720pe190c60025409bd2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910712101205q218152a2td14a8931e63d2610@mail.gmail.com>

> Here's another observation, the gcc objects are larger. Kernel has
> 650K objects in 190MB, gcc has 870K objects in 330MB. Average gcc
> object is 30% larger. How should the average kernel developer
> interpret this?

Could this be explained by the ChangeLog file? It's large; it has tons of revisions; it is a prime candidate for delta compression.

Morten