From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:56:10 GMT
Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Message-ID: <m363q5t152.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808131036590.4352@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Geert Bosch wrote:
> 
> > One nice optimization we could do for those pesky binary large objects
> > (like PDF, JPG and GZIP-ed data), is to detect such files and revert
> > to compression level 0. This should be especially beneficial
> > since already compressed data takes most time to compress again.
> 
> That would be a good thing indeed.

Perhaps take a sample of some given size and calculate entropy in it?
Or just simply add gitattribute for per file compression ratio...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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