Compression branch ready

José Fonseca jose.r.fonseca at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 07:12:51 PDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Zack Rusin <zack at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I think the compression branch is ready and it'd be great if people could give
> it a spin. I'd like to finally merge it sometime this week.
>
> It makes tracing about 10x faster which is a pretty big win. In that branch
> we've switched from gzip to snappy (http://code.google.com/p/snappy/). The
> trace files will be a little bigger though but I think that ~10x speed
> improvement is worth it.
>
> z

Zack,

I've benchmarked with ipers mesademo (which seems a very good test
case of tracing overhead), and framerate increased 5x by avoiding
gzflush (already in master), and further 2x by switching to snappy.
Pretty amazing!

I'm happy for you to merge anytime now.

Jose


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