From: Jon Smirl Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:23:16 GMT Subject: Re: A look at some alternative PACK file encodings Message-ID: <9e4733910609061623k73086dbey4a600ecf2852c024@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44FF41F4.1090906@gmail.com> On 9/6/06, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > TREE objects do not delta or deflate well. I can understand why they don't deflate, the path names are pretty much unique and the sha1s are incompressible. By why don't they delta well? Does sorting them by size mess up the delta process? Shawn is doing some prototype work on true dictionary based compression. I don't know how far along he is but it has potential for taking 30% off the Mozilla pack. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com