From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:22:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Huge win, compressing a window of delta runs as a unit
Message-ID: <9e4733910608171022w25886d13ka40e5752fec4680b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608171220260.11359@localhost.localdomain>

On 8/17/06, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> Nah.  The only overhead for a server to feed an "old" pack format from a
> "new" pack file is to inflate and deflate some data.  That is not _that_
> costly.

It is costly because the Mozilla pack is going to inflate from 295MB
to 845MB. It will take you much longer to download an extra 500MB than
upgrading your client would take.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com