Re: [PATCH WIP] sha1-lookup: make selection of 'middle' less aggressive

On Jan 1, 2008 7:36 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

The packfile is noticeably larger (55M versus 40M)

Well 55M versus 40M is _only_  27% of compression ratio. It means that
the compression algorithm is not so fundamental because the data is
already, how to say, well packaged.

IOW if a compression algorithm X is say 30% less size efficient then
zlib it means that the final packfile size using X would be 44.5M
instead of 40M, i.e. only 11% bigger then using zlib.


Marco