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Re: RAM consumption when working with the gcc repo

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MCMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 7, 2007, 20:36 UTC
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On Dec 7, 2007 10:24 PM,  <david@lang.hm> wrote:
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> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> keep in mind that that 330MB file is _very_ heavily compressed. the simple
> zlib compression is probably getting you 10:1 or 20:1 compression and the
> delta compression is a significant multiplier on top of that.
>
If the delta is good the zlib is poor and the contrary stands too.
It is very difficult to _guess_ in this cases.
Marco
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  1. Jon SmirlDec 7, 2007
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  3. Marco CostalbaDec 7, 2007
  4. Nicolas PitreDec 7, 2007
  5. Jon SmirlDec 7, 2007
  6. Marco CostalbaDec 7, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinDec 8, 2007
  8. Marco CostalbaDec 8, 2007
  9. Jon SmirlDec 7, 2007
  10. Jon SmirlDec 7, 2007
  11. Jon SmirlDec 7, 2007
  12. Martin KoeglerDec 8, 2007
  13. Jeff KingDec 7, 2007
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