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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam•org>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: 1.3.0 creating bigger packs than 1.2.3
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:32:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060421023222.GA1117@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060421012029.GB819@spearce.org>

I just tried the patch below on a couple-month-old Linux 2.6
repository from Linus (last commit: Feb 14 2006).  It did not
decrease the pack file size by much despite the higher delta:

  'next'       Total 189435, written 189435 (delta 142093), reused 44057 (delta 0)
  'next'+patch Total 189435, written 189435 (delta 142712), reused 43954 (delta 0)

  'next'       104464297 bytes
  'next'+patch 104092920 bytes (99.6% of 'next')

  'next'       328.98 real       206.02 user        93.60 sys
  'next'+patch 363.06 real       218.98 user        94.72 sys

So it looks like the patch is taking longer to run, and by about 10%.
An expensive price to pay for what amounts to only a 0.4% reduction
in pack size on the kernel.


Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce•org> wrote:
> Based on Linus' comment I changed your patch to just the following.
> It still produced the 46M pack file, so the first hunk apears to
> not have had much of an affect with this data.
> 
> From a running time perspective it appears as though this patch is
> making things slightly better, not worse.  I ran it a few times
> for each case always using the 46M pack as input for
>  "git-repack -a -d -f".
> 
>   'next'       137.13 real        95.82 user        25.24 sys
>   'next'+patch 131.62 real        89.35 user        28.56 sys
> 
> but even if the running time was an extra 6 seconds I'd still rather
> spend 4% more running time to use 1/2 the storage space.
> 
> 
> diff --git a/pack-objects.c b/pack-objects.c
> index 09f4f2c..f7d6217 100644
> --- a/pack-objects.c
> +++ b/pack-objects.c
> @@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ static int try_delta(struct unpacked *cu
>         if (cur_entry->delta)
>                 max_size = cur_entry->delta_size-1;
>         if (sizediff >= max_size)
> -               return -1;
> +               return 0;
>         delta_buf = diff_delta(old->data, oldsize,
>                                cur->data, size, &delta_size, max_size);
>         if (!delta_buf)

-- 
Shawn.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-21  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 13:36 1.3.0 creating bigger packs than 1.2.3 Shawn Pearce
2006-04-20 14:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-20 15:03   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-04-20 16:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-20 16:43       ` Shawn Pearce
2006-04-20 17:03         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-20 17:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-20 17:31           ` Shawn Pearce
2006-04-20 17:54             ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-20 21:31             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-20 21:53               ` Shawn Pearce
2006-04-20 21:56               ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-20 17:41           ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-20 17:55           ` Shawn Pearce
2006-04-20 18:24             ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-20 18:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-20 21:02                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-20 21:40                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-20 22:02                     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-04-20 22:35                       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-21  1:01                         ` Shawn Pearce
2006-04-20 22:59                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-21  0:52                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-21  1:20                     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-04-21  2:28                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-21  2:40                         ` Shawn Pearce
2006-04-21  3:07                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-21  2:32                       ` Shawn Pearce [this message]
2006-04-20 23:02                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-20 16:09 ` Nicolas Pitre

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