On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:00:55PM +0800, Liu Yubao wrote: > I did a simple benchmark on my notebook and a server in my company, > writing a big file to disk is faster than compressing it first and > writing the result out. The former's performance for reading should > also be better because of file cache. In a corporate environment (and not related to git) I found the opposite. The disk was fairly slow (over NFS) and it was in fact quicker to read and write compressed files. Nick. -- 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
