I don't think this is the BMDiff and Zippy mentioned in their Bigtable paper. It's an implementation of RFC 3284, which is supposedly slower than gzip (and faster than compress) according to the RFC. bmz with lzo is 2x faster than gzip and the bm only option is 10x faster.
On Sep 3, 12:55 pm, "Joshua Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like Google just released an implementation of the Bentley/McIlroy > delta encoder. They discuss using this for compressing HTTP in their blog. > I wonder if it's the same library they reference in the BigTable paper. It > would be interesting to compare this against the BM part of BMZ. > > Blog > post:http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-vcdiff-encoder-and... > > Project home:http://code.google.com/p/open-vcdiff/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hypertable Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hypertable-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
