From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:04:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH WIP] sha1-lookup: make selection of 'middle' less aggressive
Message-ID: <e5bfff550712301404g273dd092w9b36b48d94ed1e70@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vodc77t0o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Dec 30, 2007 10:49 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>
> 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