Nick Andrew wrote: > 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. > Ok, there must be exceptional cases, for these cases you can turn off core.uncompressedLooseObject (if there will be this config). Best regards, Liu Yubao -- 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