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Re:Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries by mhx77 on Friday November 19, 2021 @11:59AM (#29279354)
Somewhat related (and definitely born out of a very similar use case): https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs

I initially built this for having access to 1000+ Perl installations (spanning decades of Perl releases). The compression in this case is not quite as impressive (50 GiB to around 300 MiB), but access times are typically in the millisecond region.

Re:Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries by peterwaller-arm on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:05PM (#29279442)
Nice, I bet dwarfs would do well at our use case too. Thanks for sharing.
Re:Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries by pdimitar on Friday November 19, 2021 @05:55PM (#29283677)
That's super impressive, I will definitely give it a go. Thanks for sharing!