Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> Shawn is doing some prototype work on true dictionary based >> compression. I don't know how far along he is but it has potential for >> taking 30% off the Mozilla pack. > > BTW I'm half-way done with support for deltas which base object is > referenced with an offset in the pack instead of a hash. It is quite > messy though since it touches pretty core code all over the place when > it comes to fetching objects out of a pack. I wonder how you made unpack-objects to work with it. Do you store an extra bit in the packed stream to say "this object will be used as a delta base for later objects so remember its offset and resulting SHA1", or do you just remember every entry as you unpack? - To unsubscribe from this list: 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