Re: More diff performance notes

Greg Hudson wrote:

> (While I'm here, I have determined that I just about match diff+gzip
> on the .elc data set if I change the svndiff encoding so that new data
> immediately follows "copy from new data" instructions instead of being
> stored in a separate part of the window. The average encoded bytes
> per instruction drops to 2.48 in the binary case and 2.80 in the text
> case.)

Hmmm? Why would that help? The size of the new data
doesn't change by moving around, does it? Where's the
savings in that, then?

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