From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:36:38 GMT
Subject: Re: RAM consumption when working with the gcc repo
Message-ID: <e5bfff550712071236t26fe77cchf75ca64adf6a33@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712071323260.12607@asgard.lang.hm>

On Dec 7, 2007 10:24 PM,  <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> 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