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Re: Why do base objects appear behind the delta in packs?

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Aug 29, 2006, 18:16 UTC
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:
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> So I'm probably going to wind up spending some time doing research
> and experimentation on pack storage.  I may just discover we're
> as good as we can get.  Or I may find that doing something else
> saves us only 5% at the cost of far too much complexity and thus
> isn't really worth doing.  Or I may get lucky and discover a way
> to improve on what we have.

I'm periodically looking for improvements on packing performances myself.

I look forward to being able to use your (and Jon's) fast-import work in order to play with (re)generation of big packs myself.

Nicolas
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Message 7 of 9 in “Why do base objects appear behind the delta in packs?”
  1. Shawn PearceAug 29, 2006
  2. Nicolas PitreAug 29, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiAug 29, 2006
  4. Shawn PearceAug 29, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 29, 2006
  6. Shawn PearceAug 29, 2006
  7. Nicolas PitreAug 29, 2006
  8. Shawn PearceAug 29, 2006
  9. Jon SmirlAug 29, 2006

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