On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:19:04PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Erm... Both incantations work fine fine here. > > > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 tglx ftpadmin 13600376 Sep 14 22:16 pack-4d27038611fe7755938efd4a2745d5d5d35de1c1.idx > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 tglx ftpadmin 158679705 Sep 14 22:16 pack-4d27038611fe7755938efd4a2745d5d5d35de1c1.pack > > > > And I get the same result as well. > > For the curious, a 100/100 parameter gives a size of 154261771. Right. And then the runtime cost of extracting objects out of such a pack increases due to the deeper delta chain. The average runtime cost is probably linear with the delta depth, something like f(x) = a*x + k. But the size reduction follows f(x) = a/x + k. So to say that infinite delta length does not provide infinite packing size reduction. Anything larger than 50 is probably not worth the small reduction gain. Nicolas - 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