From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:59:39 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: cmd/margin: interpret the meaning of the margin bits.
X-Git-Url: https://git.michaelhowe.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa1244949b7494af92c55c0261cfd639fe2e0048;p=packages%2Fb%2Fbup.git

cmd/margin: interpret the meaning of the margin bits.

Maybe you were wondering how good it is when 'bup margin' returns 40 or 45.
Well, now it'll tell you.

Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/bup-margin.md b/Documentation/bup-margin.md
index b3b78a2..8f1ebeb 100644
--- a/Documentation/bup-margin.md
+++ b/Documentation/bup-margin.md
@@ -54,8 +54,16 @@ close to 160 bits.
 # EXAMPLE
 
     $ bup margin
-    Reading indexes: 100.00% (11188299/11188299), done.
-    45
+    Reading indexes: 100.00% (1612581/1612581), done.
+    40
+    40 matching prefix bits
+    1.94 bits per doubling
+    120 bits (61.86 doublings) remaining
+    4.19338e+18 times larger is possible
+    
+    Everyone on earth could have 625878182 data sets
+    like yours, all in one repository, and we would
+    expect 1 object collision.
     
     $ bup margin --predict
     PackIdxList: using 1 index.
diff --git a/cmd/margin-cmd.py b/cmd/margin-cmd.py
index e61d057..90dbdcd 100755
--- a/cmd/margin-cmd.py
+++ b/cmd/margin-cmd.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-import sys, struct
+import sys, struct, math
 from bup import options, git, _helpers
 from bup.helpers import *
 
+POPULATION_OF_EARTH=6.7e9  # as of September, 2010
 
 optspec = """
 bup margin
@@ -51,3 +52,16 @@ else:
         longmatch = max(longmatch, pm)
         last = i
     print longmatch
+    log('%d matching prefix bits\n' % longmatch)
+    doublings = math.log(len(mi), 2)
+    bpd = longmatch / doublings
+    log('%.2f bits per doubling\n' % bpd)
+    remain = 160 - longmatch
+    rdoublings = remain / bpd
+    log('%d bits (%.2f doublings) remaining\n' % (remain, rdoublings))
+    larger = 2**rdoublings
+    log('%g times larger is possible\n' % larger)
+    perperson = larger/POPULATION_OF_EARTH
+    log('\nEveryone on earth could have %d data sets like yours, all in one\n'
+        'repository, and we would expect 1 object collision.\n'
+        % int(perperson))