From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:40:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH WIP] sha1-lookup: make selection of 'middle' less aggressive
Message-ID: <e5bfff550801010040k59c9608do1acb9da548620f85@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080101063616.GA21605@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Jan 1, 2008 7:36 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> The packfile is noticeably larger (55M versus 40M)

Well 55M versus 40M is _only_  27% of compression ratio. It means that
the compression algorithm is not so fundamental because the data is
already, how to say, well packaged.

IOW if a compression algorithm X is say 30% less size efficient then
zlib it means that the final packfile size using X would be 44.5M
instead of 40M, i.e. only 11% bigger then using zlib.


Marco