On compressing revlogs

[Martin Geisler]

"Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos at serpentine.com> writes:

Hi Bryan

> Lately, I've come to target zlib as a performance bottleneck for
> reading data from revlogs. I threw together a quick hack this morning
> to use the snappy compression algorithm instead. [...]

You should grab hold of Sune -- he worked on generaldelta and did some
earlier experiments with LZMA compression:

  http://mercurial.markmail.org/thread/sqlsficnnwlbb7d2

-- 
Martin Geisler

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