From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 15:51:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Optimize diff-delta.c
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705011748510.4010@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1178030967273-git-send-email-mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>

Hi,

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Martin Koegler wrote:

> I tried to speed up the delta generation by searching for a common 
> prefix, as my blobs are mostly append only. I tested it with about less 
> than 1000 big blobs. The time for finding the deltas decreased from 17 
> to 14 minutes cpu time.

The interesting timings, of course, would be of big blobs which are _not_ 
append-only, as they are more common, at least for me.

Since git.git contained next to no binary blobs, this is not a good test 
case.

Ciao,
Dscho