From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:15:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Huge win, compressing a window of delta runs as a unit
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608171413160.11359@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910608171022w25886d13ka40e5752fec4680b@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:

> 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