From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:24:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3% tighter packs for free
Message-ID: <7vhd5vwo7e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603181315060.4889@localhost.localdomain>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> Tried that long ago.  As BLK_SIZE is increased the adler32 cost, which 
> has to be computed for every offset in the target buffer, increases 
> accordingly.  So you end up with both worse compression and more CPU 
> usage.

Ah, I was not paying enough attention.  I did not realize
destination scanning was done for every byte.