From: Jon Seymour Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:41:14 GMT Subject: Re: WARNING! Object DB conversion (was Re: [PATCH] write-tree performance problems) Message-ID: <2cfc4032050420064167186802@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050420132446.GA10126@macavity> > The main point is not about trying different compression > techniques but that you don't need to compress at all just > to calculate the hash of some data. (to know if it is > unchanged for example) > Ah, ok, I didn't understand that there were extra compresses being performed for that reason. Thanks for the explanation. jon.