From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:16:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Something is broken in repack
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