pack-objects: allow for early delta deflating
When the delta data is cached in memory until it is written to a pack
file on disk, it is best to compress it right away in find_deltas() for
the following reasons:
- we have to compress that data anyway;
- this allows for caching more deltas with the same cache size limit;
- compression is potentially threaded.
This last point is especially relevant for SMP run time. For example,
repacking the Linux repo on a quad core processor using 4 threads with
all default settings produce the following results before this change:
real 2m27.929s
user 4m36.492s
sys 0m3.091s
And with this change applied:
real 2m13.787s
user 4m37.486s
sys 0m3.159s
So the actual execution time stayed more or less the same but the
wall clock time is shorter.
This is however not a good thing to do when generating a pack for
network transmission. In that case, the network is most likely to
throttle the data throughput, so it is best to make find_deltas()
faster in order to start writing data ASAP since we can afford
spending more time between writes to compress the data
at that point.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>