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Re: [PATCH WIP] sha1-lookup: make selection of 'middle' less aggressive

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MCMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
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Dec 30, 2007, 22:04 UTC
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On Dec 30, 2007 10:49 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
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> The cost of the key comparison done in each round is
> insignificant compared to the actual cost of accessing the
> object data through zlib.

Sorry to ask, but just out of curiosity, what were the reasons to choose zlib compression algorithm among the possible ones?

There is a thread where this has been discussed in the past? Sorry to ask but I didn't find such a thread myself.

Thanks Marco

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Message 8 of 14 in “sha1-lookup: more memory efficient search in sorted list of SHA-1”
  1. sha1-lookup: more memory efficient search in sorted list of SHA-1Junio C Hamano, Dec 30, 2007
  2. sha1-lookup: make selection of 'middle' less aggressiveJunio C Hamano, Dec 30, 2007
  3. Marco CostalbaDec 30, 2007
  4. Marco CostalbaDec 30, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceDec 31, 2007
  6. Linus TorvaldsDec 30, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 30, 2007
  8. Marco CostalbaDec 30, 2007
  9. Linus TorvaldsDec 31, 2007
  10. Marco CostalbaDec 31, 2007
  11. Jeff KingJan 1, 2008
  12. Marco CostalbaJan 1, 2008
  13. Marco CostalbaJan 1, 2008
  14. Pierre HabouzitJan 1, 2008

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