Re: Decompression speed: zip vs lzo

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Jan 10, 2008, 22:28 UTC
Message-ID: <47869C24.3000400@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801101400550.3148@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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>> wilber:~/src/perl-preview$ du -sk .git
>> 73274   .git
>> wilber:~/src/perl-preview$ git-repack -a
>> Counting objects: 244360, done.
>> Compressing objects: 100% (55493/55493), done.
>> Writing objects: 100% (244360/244360), done.
>> Total 244360 (delta 181061), reused 244360 (delta 181061)
>> wilber:~/src/perl-preview$ du -sk .git/objects/pack/
>> 75389   .git/objects/pack/
> 
> Hmm. I'm not sure I understand what this was supposed to show?
> 
> You reused all the old deltas, and you did "du -sk" on two different 
> things before/after (and didn't do a "-a -d" to repack the old pack 
> either). So does the result actually have anything to do with any 
> compression algorithm?
> 
> Use "-a -d -f" to repack a whole archive.

Drat, guess that means I'll have to recompute the deltas - I was trying to avoid that.

Ok, see you in an hour or two, hopefully sans bonehead mistakes this time :)

Sam.