On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Stefan de Konink <ste...@konink.de> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Anthony wrote: > >>> Yeah, but your lead basically shows we are talking about more than 10%... >> >> Yeah, probably, but at the expense of more complicated code, greater >> memory usage, etc. > > The hole process is IO-bound... memory is used anyway to overcome the IO > issues...
Not in an embedded system, which is where a small difference like 10% is going to matter. >> I'm interested now in seeing how the full history compression goes, >> though. If it can achieve 70, 80, 90% on top of zlib, then it might >> be worth embedding the compression as opposed to just using it for >> transfer over the Internet. > > The dictionary is compressed per block, so it greatly depends if the trick > works. 32 megs is a lot better than 900K, though. 900K is how much zlib uses, right? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
