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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: David Michael Barr <b@rr-dav.id.au>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] pack-objects: compression level for non-blobs
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:27:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121229052747.GA14928@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8AN3y_4wcZ_w0zz+ZAaDasRT-+h8vA_fp2j4+FL00dbLw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:25:04PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> > But just dropping the compression (or doing partial
> > decompression when we only care about the beginning part) is way less
> > code and complexity.
> 
> I think I tried the partial decompression for commit header and it did
> not help much (or I misremember it, not so sure).

I'll see if I can dig up the reference, as it was something I was going
to look at next.

> > There's no cache to manage.
> 
> If reachability bitmap is implemented, we'll have per-pack cache
> infrastructure ready, so less work there for commit cache.

True. I don't want to dissuade you from doing any commit cache work. I
only wanted to point out that this alternative may have merit because of
its simplicity (so we can use it until a caching solution exists, or
even after, if managing the cache has downsides).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-29  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-26  6:25 [RFC] pack-objects: compression level for non-blobs David Michael Barr
2012-11-26 12:35 ` David Michael Barr
2012-12-29  0:41 ` Jeff King
2012-12-29  4:34   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-12-29  5:07     ` Jeff King
2012-12-29  5:25       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-12-29  5:27         ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-12-29  9:05           ` Jeff King
2012-12-29  9:48             ` Jeff King
2012-12-30 12:05           ` Jeff King
2012-12-30 12:53             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-12-30 21:31               ` Jeff King
2012-12-31 18:06                 ` Shawn Pearce
2013-01-01  4:15                   ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-01 12:10                     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-01 17:17                       ` Shawn Pearce
2013-01-01 23:47                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-02  2:23                         ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-01 20:02                       ` Junio C Hamano

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