On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Florian Festi <ffesti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/06/2014 05:16 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: >> The fact that some users have more bandwidth means exactly >> what? Most people also have faster processors and disks now. It is >> more efficient from a networking perspective to minimize unnecessary >> traffic and use local processing. That was behind the rationale when >> delta was introduced and made the default. It was valid then, and it is >> valid now. > > This argument is not valid. While most parts of a computer got faster > things are not growing at the same rate. So what might have made sense a > few years ago might be completely useless now. > > One thing that makes deltarpm less useful nowadays are seek times in > hard disks (although they are going away). They are still the same as in > the nineties while the number of files have been growing. No they aren't. Even on cheap SSDs there are at least one order of magnitude faster. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
