From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:37:50 GMT
Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808131036590.4352@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <70550C21-8358-4BEF-A7BA-3A41C1ACB346@adacore.com>

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Geert Bosch wrote:

> One nice optimization we could do for those pesky binary large objects
> (like PDF, JPG and GZIP-ed data), is to detect such files and revert
> to compression level 0. This should be especially beneficial
> since already compressed data takes most time to compress again.

That would be a good thing indeed.


Nicolas