The primary concern for uncompressed repositories would be network traffic and to a lesser extent disk footprint.
Dean Roberts, J9 Java Class Library Team IBM Ottawa Lab 613-356-5099 [email protected] Igor Fedorenko <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] 11/17/2010 12:37 PM Please respond to P2 developer discussions <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: [p2-dev] Use of uncompressed metadata repositories Can you be more specific about concerns that you have? -- Regards, Igor On 10-11-17 10:00 AM, Dean Roberts wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am trying go get a feel for how widely used uncompressed metadata > repositories are. > > A typical content.xml file contains many copies of identical license > text. Memory use is not an issue since the implementation uses a > StringPool to extern string references. Compressed repositories do not > present an issue for disk foot print or network traffic as the > content.xml compresses extremely well, typically 95% or more. > > However, uncompressed metadata repositories may pose a significant > concern here if they are widely used. > > So does anybody have an opinion on how widely used uncompressed > repositories are? > > Thanks > > Dean Roberts, J9 Java Class Library Team > IBM Ottawa Lab > 613-356-5099 > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > p2-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev _______________________________________________ p2-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev
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