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Re: 1.3.0 creating bigger packs than 1.2.3

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Apr 21, 2006, 00:52 UTC
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> >> But I suspect we have a built-in "we sort bigger to smaller, and
> >> we cut off when we switch bins" somewhere in find_delta() loop,
> >> which I do not recall touching when I did that change, so that
> >> may be interfering and preventing 0-11-AdjLite.deg from all over
> >> the place to delta against each other.
> >
> > I just cannot find something that would do that in the code.  When 
> > --no-reuse-delta is specified, the only things that will break the loop
> > in find_delta() is when try_delta() returns -1, and that happens only 
> > when changing object type or when the size difference is too big, but 
> > nothing looks at the name hash.
> 
> The list is sorted by type then hash then size (type_size_sort),
> so if you have t/Makefile that are big medium small too-small
> and then doc/Makefile that are big medium, once you see the
> too-small t/Makefile it would not consider the big doc/Makefile
> as a candidate X-<.
Bingo!  I didn't think it all through before.
Nicolas
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  1. Shawn PearceApr 20, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2006
  3. Shawn PearceApr 20, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2006
  5. Shawn PearceApr 20, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2006
  8. Shawn PearceApr 20, 2006
  9. Nicolas PitreApr 20, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2006
  11. Shawn PearceApr 20, 2006
  12. Jakub NarebskiApr 20, 2006
  13. Nicolas PitreApr 20, 2006
  14. Shawn PearceApr 20, 2006
  15. Nicolas PitreApr 20, 2006
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2006
  17. Nicolas PitreApr 20, 2006
  18. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2006
  19. Shawn PearceApr 20, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2006
  21. Shawn PearceApr 21, 2006
  22. Linus TorvaldsApr 20, 2006
  23. Nicolas PitreApr 21, 2006
  24. Shawn PearceApr 21, 2006
  25. Nicolas PitreApr 21, 2006
  26. Shawn PearceApr 21, 2006
  27. Nicolas PitreApr 21, 2006
  28. Shawn PearceApr 21, 2006
  29. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2006
  30. Nicolas PitreApr 20, 2006

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