RE: Space wasting

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 13:17, Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote:
> [referring to a single compressed file containing .svn directory]
> > > * it saves space, even over a 'perfect' file system
> > And makes it slower, because it has to compress the stuff.
>
> Just to clear up a point:
>
> If the data is nice and compressible, and a fast compression algorithm is
> used, it's usually faster to read the (smaller) compressed data and
> decompress than it is to just read the (larger) raw data directly from disk.
> Disk access is much slower than CPU cycles.
>
Hmmm... I understand you're just speaking to the point above. But what
about the particular change we're talking about? Reading one small file
that you know the name of from a directory of small files vs reading and
decompressing one large file until we seek to the end of the file we
want to access (assuming a compressing tar library here).

-Toshio

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Toshio <toshio@tiki-lounge.com>
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