On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Revisions were compressed individually? I thought they
were
concatenated and then compressed to take advantage of revisions of the
same article usually only differing by small amounts (and so being
highly compressible). I'm sure brion said that sometime...
My recollection is that this was the case, but it didn't help much,
because articles are typically bigger than the block size used by
gzip.