On Jan 1, 2008 7:36 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The packfile is noticeably larger (55M versus 40M) Well 55M versus 40M is _only_ 27% of compression ratio. It means that the compression algorithm is not so fundamental because the data is already, how to say, well packaged. IOW if a compression algorithm X is say 30% less size efficient then zlib it means that the final packfile size using X would be 44.5M instead of 40M, i.e. only 11% bigger then using zlib. Marco - 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
