On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:
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>> In a random trunk image I get
>>
>> MCVersionInfo instanceCount
>> ==> 9135
>> MCVersionInfo allInstances asSet size
>> ==> 9037
>>
>> So uniquing these wouldn't save much overall.
>>
>
> In a random mcz file from my cache (Kernel-721.cwp):
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>      15     package
> 1482380     snapshot.bin
> 1407480     snapshot/source.st
>  243499     version
>
> These are byte counts, so the ancestry data (in "version") takes up about
> 8% of the total. If we really want to make these files smaller, we'd do
> better to get rid of the redundancy between snapshot.bin and snapshot/
> source.st.
>

I thought that the issue was not file size but in-image footprint.  What do
others think?
-- 
best,
Eliot
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