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