On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 11:59, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Your average is misleading since it doesn't take in account
package size
> and just the % of savings per each package.
Really? Then what does
Total RPM Size: 45140838 Total Delta Size: 16309380
Total Savings: 28831458 63.87% savings
mean?
I was mislead by the term average, and thought the 63.87% were an
average of the savings per package (which is in fact circa 70% and quite
unreal). Ok, 64% is a big reduction indeed.
> well, they're really not impressive.
I would say that is a matter of opinion, and not of much interest. What
matters is if such an implementation would generate real world bandwidth
savings for people that can use those.
It must be proved flawless (preferably with more than an empiric test
throughout the historical updates, a real mathematical proof :)).
There's also the problem of the delta packages download server.
Will it have to wast disk space by maintaining all deltas? I don't know
how many mirrors will like that.
Rui
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