Re: [Monotone-devel] summit flag day?

[Eric Anderson]

Lapo Luchini writes:
 > 4. make the compression algorithm parametric (most obvious choices could 
 > be, in order of decreasing speed and size: no compression, lzo, zlib, 
 > lzma; lzma is particularly interesting because it's heavy to compress, 
 > but very fast on decompression)

You probably want to consider adding lzf
<http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/liblzf.html> and bz2
<http://www.bzip.org/>.  The former because it is very fast
(compresses at ~100MB/s/core on modern processors), and the latter
because everyone has it and it compresses better than gzip.
        -Eric