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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] index-pack: kill union delta_base to save memory
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:37:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqegp9igsr.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8A3MxpQRwboVjyv7akvzgf3y23ZsnAaxuHXkm2U=tUk0A@mail.gmail.com> (Duy Nguyen's message of "Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:44:07 +0700")

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com> writes:

>> Probably "Not so ancient versions of Git tries to use ofs-delta
>> encoding whenever possible, so it is expected that objects encoded
>> using ref-delta are minority" may be closer to the truth.  And that
>> observation does justify why using two separate pools (one with
>> 8-byte entries for ofs-delta, the other with 20-byte entries for
>> ref-delta) is a better idean than using one pool with 20-byte
>> entries for both kinds.
>
> Yes. Looks good. Should I send a patch, or you fix the commit
> message locally?

Thinking about the above again, I do not think there is any point
saying "not so ancient versions of Git", as the receiving index-pack
would not even know what implementaiton of Git sits on the other end
of the connection; it may even be a jGit based server, for example.
So something like:

    Because ofs-delta encoding is more efficient space-wise and more
    performant at runtime than ref-delta encoding, Git packers try
    to use ofs-delta whenever possible, and it is expected that
    objects encoded as ref-delta are minority.

perhaps?

      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-01  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-20  1:58 [PATCH 0/2] nd/slim-index-pack-memory-usage updates Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-02-20  1:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] index-pack: reduce object_entry size to save memory Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-02-23  2:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-23  3:38     ` Duy Nguyen
2015-02-20  1:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] index-pack: kill union delta_base " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-02-26 10:52 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] nd/slim-index-pack-memory-usage updates Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-02-26 10:52   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] index-pack: reduce object_entry size to save memory Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-02-26 10:52   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] index-pack: kill union delta_base " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-02-27 21:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-28 11:44       ` Duy Nguyen
2015-03-01  2:37         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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