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Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: emit base before delta.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jul 1, 2005, 15:40 UTC
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>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> So I like this from an unpacking standpoint, but at the same LT> time I don't actually think it's correct from an access LT> pattern standpoint.

My faulty logic, when I did the patch, was "we would jump around on random access anyway, so forcing the runtime to go backwards even when we know that these 40 objects are followed in this exact order to resolve delta is also OK." It is not.

Please drop the patch.
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