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Re: Decompression speed: zip vs lzo

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jan 10, 2008, 22:56 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.1.00.0801101454440.3148@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sam Vilain wrote:
> 
> Drat, guess that means I'll have to recompute the deltas - I was trying
> to avoid that.

Well, you could try to reuse the delta base information itself, but then recompute the actual delta data contents. It would require some source-code changes, but that may be faster (and result in a more accurate before/after picture) than actually recomputing the deltas.

			Linus
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