From: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:53:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use configurable zlib compression level everywhere.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607071451430.1836@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pxyscdt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * sha1write_compressed() in csum-file.c is for producing packs
>   and most of the things we compress there are deltas and less
>   compressible, so even when core.compression is set to high we
>   might be better off using faster compression.

why would deltas have poor compression? I'd expect them to have about the same 
as the files they are deltas of (or slightly better due to the fact that the 
deta metainfo is highly repetitive)

David Lang