Re: [RFC] : full-text instead of vdelta against empty bytestream

At 12:16 AM -0400 10/21/03, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>On Oct 19, 2003, at 6:55 PM, David Kimdon wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>The included patch removes vdelta calculation when we are sending the
>>full text of the target.
>
>Except that vdelta against an empty bytestream will be quite a bit smaller.
>
>This should probably be controlled by some option, since it's not
>always a win for everyone (it depends on your network connection
>speed, etc)

/me 's teeth set on edge

Eeerrrrraaaggggg ... an option? because the optimal behavior is too
hard for the code to predict? so the poor user should take a guess?
even though he has even less info? changing the server code, and the
protocol, and the client? in ways I shudder to suspect might be
incompatible with older clients/servers? this close to 1.0?

I'm thinking very "whoah" thoughts, here...

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