Re: Whither delta combiner

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Daniel Berlin wrote:

>
> One thing we should also be doing is fulltext compression. Rather than
> give up, or store full fulltexts, we could at least delta them against an
> empty string.
> Since vdelta is based off lempel-ziv, it'll give you some compression
> (better than compress, worse than gzip, according to the paper).
>
> Right now, we just leave it completely fulltext.
Strike that.

I forgot the compression comes mainly from their encoding/folding, rather
than anything else.
Since we do neither, ...
--Dan

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