I'd like to get my hands dirty and see for myself where the issue lies. I hope to have some time next week to devote to this. Is it reasonable to hope for a solution that is at least a lot lighter weight than the current status quo? Carl On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:28:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Carl Baldwin wrote: > > > > When I set the window to 0 I one more issue. Even though the blobs are > > already compressed on disk I still seem to pay the penalty of inflating > > them into memory and then deflating them into the pack. When the window > > size is 0 this is just wasted cycles. With large binary files these > > wasted cycles slow down the push/fetch operation considerably. Couldn't > > the compressed blobs be copied into the pack without first deflating > > them in this 0 window case? > > The problem is that the individual object disk format isn't actually the > same as the pack-file object format for one object. The header is > different: a pack-file uses a very dense bit packing, while the individual > object format is a bit less dense. > > Sad, really, but it means that right now you can only re-use data that was > already packed (when the format matches). > > Linus > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Carl Baldwin RADCAD (R&D CAD) Hewlett Packard Company MS 88 work: 970 898-1523 3404 E. Harmony Rd. work: Carl.N.Baldwin@xxxxxx Fort Collins, CO 80525 home: Carl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html