Re: DAV updates

>>[ yes, I know that svndiff may not compress well (we should be able to
>> disable Apache's compression for svndiff data), but updates can also give
>> you new files, and compressing that full text is important ]

If I'm not mistaken, when an update gives you a new file, it gives you
an svndiff against /dev/null, which still won't compress very well.
(Compressing the plain text would be more bandwidth-efficient, since
gzip is a better compression algorithm, but it's also more work for
the server.)

> Actually, I think svndiff would compress reasonably well.

My testing from October 2000 (message 23888 in the archives) yielded:

        Raw size: 6912321
        svndiff alone: 3471614 (50%)
        svndiff+gzip: 2976929 (43%)
        gzip alone: 2541305 (37%)

on a diff between /dev/null and a data set of .elc files. So yes,
about 15%. Don't know if that justifies the extra work by the server.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:42 2006