Re: Revisiting large binary files issue.

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Carl Baldwin wrote:

When I set the window to 0 I one more issue.  Even though the blobs are
already compressed on disk I still seem to pay the penalty of inflating
them into memory and then deflating them into the pack.  When the window
size is 0 this is just wasted cycles.  With large binary files these
wasted cycles slow down the push/fetch operation considerably.  Couldn't
the compressed blobs be copied into the pack without first deflating
them in this 0 window case?

The problem is that the individual object disk format isn't actually the 
same as the pack-file object format for one object. The header is 
different: a pack-file uses a very dense bit packing, while the individual 
object format is a bit less dense.

Sad, really, but it means that right now you can only re-use data that was 
already packed (when the format matches).

		Linus