key/value store optimized for disk storage

[John Nagle]

On 5/4/2012 12:14 AM, Steve Howell wrote:
> On May 3, 11:59 pm, Paul Rubin<no.em... at nospam.invalid>  wrote:
>> Steve Howell<showel... at yahoo.com>  writes:
>>>      compressor = zlib.compressobj()
>>>      s = compressor.compress("foobar")
>>>      s += compressor.flush(zlib.Z_SYNC_FLUSH)
>>
>>>      s_start = s
>>>      compressor2 = compressor.copy()

    That's awful. There's no point in compressing six characters
with zlib.  Zlib has a minimum overhead of 11 bytes.  You just
made the data bigger.

				John Nagle