<pasky> yes
-And Bable-like confusion flowed.
+And Babel-like confusion flowed.
<njs`> oh, hmm, and I'm not sure what this sliding window means either
(type, basename, size)).
Then we walk through this list, and calculate a delta of
- each object against the last n (tunable paramater) objects,
+ each object against the last n (tunable parameter) objects,
and pick the smallest of these deltas.
Vastly simplified, but the essence is there!
- we actively try to generate deltas from a larger object to a
smaller one
- this means that the top-of-tree very seldom has deltas
- (ie deltas in _practice_ are "backwards deltas")
+ (i.e. deltas in _practice_ are "backwards deltas")
Again, we should reread that whole paragraph. Not just because
Linus has slipped Linus's Law in there on us, but because it is
do "object name->location in packfile" translation.
<njs`> I'm assuming the real win for delta-ing large->small is
- more homogenous statistics for gzip to run over?
+ more homogeneous statistics for gzip to run over?
(You have to put the bytes in one place or another, but
putting them in a larger blob wins on compression)
Bugs happen, but they are "simple" bugs. And bugs that
actually get some object store detail wrong are almost always
- so obious that they never go anywhere.
+ so obvious that they never go anywhere.
<njs`> Yeah.