Re: Impact of SVN_DELTA_WINDOW_SIZE on large files with small differences

Charles Butterfield wrote:
...
> Conclusions
> -----------
> For really big files, the large number of windows causes small deltas to
> be magnified linearly in the number of windows. Allowing a large window
> size
> seems to have positive effects on both the encoding of deltas as well as
> compression of the "base" revision.
>
> With my admin hat on, I would sure like the ability to specify a larger
> window size (within limits) when processing repos with large files,
> perhaps only when processing those large files.
>

I thought there was something in the code which made changing window
sizes backward incompatible.

See:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-07/0911.shtml

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