From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:48:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Compression and dictionaries
Message-ID: <81b0412b0608140048s2dae66edj4af76a6cd564af7d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060814041705.GD18667@spearce.org>

On 8/14/06, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > A fixed dictionary could conceivably take 5-10% off the size of each entry.
>
> Could be an interesting experiment to see if that's really true
> for common loads (e.g. the kernel repo).  I don't think anyone has
> tried it.

BTW, kenel repo rapidly becomes "less than common load" for git ;)