Re: [PATCH 2/2] use zstd zlib wrapper

2016-09-14 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 06:22:17PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > > Disappointingly, the answer seems to be "no". > > After having looked at the data, I disagree with the conclusion. > And for that I think we need to reason about the frequency > of the operations happening. I definitely agree tha

Re: [PATCH 2/2] use zstd zlib wrapper

2016-09-14 Thread Stefan Beller
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Jeff King wrote: > There's a fancy new compression algorithm called "zstd". The > idea is that it's supposed to get similar compression ratios > to zlib, but with much faster compression and decompression > times. And on top of that, a nice sliding scale to trade o

[PATCH 2/2] use zstd zlib wrapper

2016-09-14 Thread Jeff King
There's a fancy new compression algorithm called "zstd". The idea is that it's supposed to get similar compression ratios to zlib, but with much faster compression and decompression times. And on top of that, a nice sliding scale to trade off size versus time on the compression side. The zstd site