"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > P.S: Compression size is better for zip but a more realistic test > would be to try with a delta packaged repo instead of a simple tar of > source files. Because delta packaged is already compressed in his way > perhaps difference in final file sizes is smaller. Note that the space nor time performance of compressing and uncompressing a single huge blob is not as interesting in the context of git as compressing/uncompressing millions of small pieces whose total size is comparable to the specimen of "huge single blob" experiment. Obviously loose object files are compressed individually, and packfile contents are also individually and independently compressed. Set-up cost for individual invocation of compression and uncompression on smaller data matters a lot more than an experiment on compressing and uncompressiong a single huge blob (this applies to both time and space). - 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
