From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:40:40 GMT
Subject: Re: A look at some alternative PACK file encodings
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609062037560.18635@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910609061623k73086dbey4a600ecf2852c024@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:

> Shawn is doing some prototype work on true dictionary based
> compression. I don't know how far along he is but it has potential for
> taking 30% off the Mozilla pack.

BTW I'm half-way done with support for deltas which base object is 
referenced with an offset in the pack instead of a hash.  It is quite 
messy though since it touches pretty core code all over the place when 
it comes to fetching objects out of a pack.


Nicolas