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Re: Huge win, compressing a window of delta runs as a unit

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Aug 17, 2006, 18:15 UTC
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
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> 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.

I didn't say it isn't costly. I said that it isn't _that_ costly to the point of bringing down a server.

Nicolas
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  1. Jon SmirlAug 16, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceAug 17, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2006
  5. Jon SmirlAug 17, 2006
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2006
  7. Nicolas PitreAug 17, 2006
  8. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2006
  9. Jon SmirlAug 17, 2006
  10. Nicolas PitreAug 17, 2006
  11. Jon SmirlAug 17, 2006
  12. Nicolas PitreAug 17, 2006
  13. Jon SmirlAug 17, 2006
  14. Nicolas PitreAug 17, 2006
  15. Jon SmirlAug 17, 2006
  16. Nicolas PitreAug 17, 2006
  17. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2006
  18. Jon SmirlAug 18, 2006
  19. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2006
  20. Jon SmirlAug 18, 2006
  21. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2006
  22. Shawn PearceAug 21, 2006
  23. Jakub NarebskiAug 21, 2006
  24. Jon SmirlAug 21, 2006
  25. Jon SmirlAug 18, 2006
  26. Johannes SchindelinAug 18, 2006
  27. Jon SmirlAug 18, 2006
  28. Linus TorvaldsAug 19, 2006
  29. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2006
  30. Shawn PearceAug 21, 2006
  31. Jon SmirlAug 21, 2006
  32. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2006
  33. Jon SmirlAug 21, 2006
  34. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2006
  35. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2006
  36. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2006

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