From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:56:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Decompression speed: zip vs lzo
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801101454440.3148@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <47869C24.3000400@vilain.net>



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