From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:31:21 GMT Subject: Re: Decompression speed: zip vs lzo Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <47855765.9090001@vilain.net> Hi, On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Sam Vilain wrote: > I think to go forward this would need a prototype and benchmark figures > for things like "annotate" and "fsck --full" - but bear in mind it would > be a long road to follow-up to completion, as repository compatibility > would need to be a primary concern and this essentially would create a > new pack type AND a new *object* type. No new object type. Why should it? But it has to have a config variable which says what type of packs/loose objects it has (and you will not be able to mix them). > Not really worth it IMHO - gzip is already fast enough on even the most > modern processor these days. I agree that gzip is already fast enough. However, pack v4 had more goodies than just being faster; it also promised to have smaller packs. And pack v4 would need to have the same infrastructure of repacking if the client does not understand v4 packs. Ciao, Dscho