From: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:16:11 GMT
Subject: Re: two questions about the format of loose object
Message-ID: <20081201121611.GC32415@mail.local.tull.net>
In-Reply-To: <493399B7.5000505@gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:00:55PM +0800, Liu Yubao wrote:
> I did a simple benchmark on my notebook and a server in my company,
> writing a big file to disk is faster than compressing it first and
> writing the result out. The former's performance for reading should
> also be better because of file cache.

In a corporate environment (and not related to git) I found the
opposite. The disk was fairly slow (over NFS) and it was in fact
quicker to read and write compressed files.

Nick.