On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:57:14AM -0500, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> Playing with it, if I reduce the minimum chunk
> size to 32, the pack gets significantly smaller:
> 
> 	1.6188G	eecede5b54cafd33515f01101c139b098370ec3a.pack
> 
> And switching from sha1 to murmurhash2 for the delta
> hash table is a significant speedup.  It drops the time
> to repack the plan9front repo from 67 seconds to 48
> seconds.

Thank you, Ori!  Is the patch below equivalent to what you did?

I am sorry I did not find time yet to provide you with numbers that
show our current performance with respect to size and time.
I could still do that if it would still be useful to you.


diff d75b4088b08f12aea8079aad55996a65b7b312c8 /home/stsp/src/got
blob - 0285cfc40e99bc160a29bfb3df79477d73b75cf4
file + lib/deltify.c
--- lib/deltify.c
+++ lib/deltify.c
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
-#include <sha1.h>
 
 #include "got_error.h"
 
 #include "got_lib_deltify.h"
+#include "murmurhash2.h"
 
 #ifndef MIN
 #define	MIN(_a,_b) ((_a) < (_b) ? (_a) : (_b))
@@ -87,17 +87,10 @@ static uint32_t geartab[256] = {
     0xf1f6e72c, 0x5551128a, 0x83af87e2, 0x6f0342ba,
 };
 
-static uint64_t
+static uint32_t
 hashblk(const unsigned char *p, off_t n)
 {
-	unsigned char buf[SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH];
-	uint64_t h;
-	SHA1_CTX ctx;
-	SHA1Init(&ctx);
-	SHA1Update(&ctx, p, n);
-	SHA1Final(buf, &ctx);
-	memcpy(&h, buf, sizeof(h));
-	return be64toh(h);
+	return murmurhash2(p, n, 0x1d7c5ac3);
 }
 
 static const struct got_error *
@@ -247,7 +240,7 @@ lookupblk(struct got_delta_block **block, struct got_d
     unsigned char *p, off_t len, FILE *basefile, off_t basefile_offset0)
 {
 	int i;
-	uint64_t h;
+	uint32_t h;
 	uint8_t buf[GOT_DELTIFY_MAXCHUNK];
 	size_t r;
 
@@ -278,7 +271,7 @@ lookupblk_mem(struct got_delta_block **block, struct g
     unsigned char *p, off_t len, uint8_t *basedata, off_t basefile_offset0)
 {
 	int i;
-	uint64_t h;
+	uint32_t h;
 	uint8_t *b;
 
 	*block = NULL;
@@ -360,7 +353,7 @@ got_deltify_init(struct got_delta_table **dt, FILE *f,
     off_t filesize)
 {
 	const struct got_error *err = NULL;
-	uint64_t h;
+	uint32_t h;
 	const off_t offset0 = fileoffset;
 
 	*dt = calloc(1, sizeof(**dt));
blob - 956f6c3dab971228b22f00297f9ee0ef0ef8f894
file + lib/got_lib_deltify.h
--- lib/got_lib_deltify.h
+++ lib/got_lib_deltify.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct got_delta_instruction {
 };
 
 enum {
-	GOT_DELTIFY_MINCHUNK	= 128,
+	GOT_DELTIFY_MINCHUNK	= 32,
 	GOT_DELTIFY_MAXCHUNK	= 8192,
 	GOT_DELTIFY_SPLITMASK	= (1 << 8) - 1,
 	
blob - b903bbecf5905f866e82fb63306b28d3e7b6366e
file + regress/deltify/Makefile
--- regress/deltify/Makefile
+++ regress/deltify/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .PATH:${.CURDIR}/../../lib
 
 PROG = deltify_test
-SRCS = deltify.c error.c opentemp.c sha1.c deltify_test.c
+SRCS = deltify.c error.c opentemp.c sha1.c deltify_test.c murmurhash2.c
 
 CPPFLAGS = -I${.CURDIR}/../../include -I${.CURDIR}/../../lib
 LDADD = -lz