From: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:44:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apply delta depth bias to already deltified objects
Message-ID: <20070712164458.GC19073@lavos.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707121146550.32552@xanadu.home>

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:27:02PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Better yet, the integer truncation error should be compensated for, with 
> this:
> 
>     max_size =
>         (trg_entry->delta_size * max_depth + max_depth - trg_entry->depth) /
>                     (max_depth - trg_entry->depth + 1);

Yep, with this, my degenerate case seems to find the optimum solution
(depth ~ 65) even at crazy maximum depths like 1000.

Looks good to me.

-bcd