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Re: How to unpack recent objects?

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PSPhillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Date
Dec 16, 2010, 22:06 UTC
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On 12/16/2010 4:19 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> What makes you think that unpacking them will actually make the access 
> to them faster?  Instead, you should consider _repacking_ them, 
> ultimately using the --aggressive parameter with the gc command, if you 
> want faster accesses.

Because decompressing and undeltifying the objects in the pack file takes a fair amount of cpu time. It seems a waste to do this for the same set of objects repeatedly rather than just keeping them loose.

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  3. Nicolas PitreDec 16, 2010
  4. Phillip SusiDec 16, 2010
  5. Jakub NarebskiDec 16, 2010
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