Re: faster client pre-1.0: neon prefetching, multithreading

Greg Hudson wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:31, Branko Čibej wrote:
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>>Oh, but I think mod_deflate can do better than vdelta as far as
>>compression is concerned (well, slightly better)
>>
>>
>
>If we ever dusted off Dan Berlin's svndiff1 stuff, I think we would do
>about as well as gzip spacewise. More importantly, though, would using
>zlib actually be any faster than using self-compressed vdeltas, if the
>goal is to speed things up?
>

The comparison was "diff -e | gzip", which was about the same size as
vdelta. I believe that for compression only, zlib is still significantly
better. I don't know about which is faster, but the real question is
whether the difference in time balances the difference in network
transfer size. I suspect it does, but who knows? We need performance
measurements, obviously.

>>Yes, and a smart compiler probably already does that.
>>
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>svn_txdelta__insert_op is defifined in a separate source file. So
>nothing using the normal Unix build process will do that, because the
>information isn't available at the right time. (Unless you put off all
>compilation until the linking phase, anyway.)
>
>
Ah, right. And we don't want to move that function into another file.
Well, the 1% is probably reallocation costs, anyway.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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