On 4/30/2009 2:38, Steven G. Johnson wrote:
PPS. It's a little confusing that the files in _darcs/inventories all end with ".gz" but are apparently plain-text files.
Darcs 1 would always append .gz, but only gzip the file when it was larger than some simple threshhold (and/or when certain flags of ``darcs optimize`` were called). I believe this was originally done as a (potential) performance optimization. From what I've seen, darcs 2 always gzips the files. I think that in the end, the performance loss of gzipping small files was a relatively minor trade-off for the conceptual simplicity of "everything is gzipped".
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