Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Avoiding ancestor scan during get with revision library

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:44:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>> tla directory: 4.4 M, tla.tar.gz: 203 k
> >> And then try bzip2 to get even more disgusted,
> > On similar data, 65k.  That's about 69:1.  bzip2 takes significantly
> > longer than gzip, though.
> 
> Compression time is not important here.  Decompression OTOH needs to be fast.

Note that the bzip2 implementation you are almost certainly using is
optimised for memory usage, not speed, and is a full order of
complexity slower than one written for speed.

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