From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 3 06:30:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA00739 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:30:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA00734 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:30:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.8.8/8.7.3) id PAA25201; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 15:29:58 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19990103152958.A25190@cons.org> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 15:29:58 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer To: Michael Searle , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Policy on bzip2? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Michael Searle on Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 07:41:24PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In , Michael Searle wrote: > It is several times slower for decompression as well, and requires a > lot more memory than gunzip (even in low memory, low speed mode). On > a fast machine bunzip2 decompresses at about 500K/s (or 250K/s in > low memory mode) while gunzip gets 3500K/s, so while it would speed > up most net installs it would slow down a CD install. We're talking distfiles, not packages. Compared to building from source the decompression effort is unusally neglectable, no matter what decompression. I would also think that using bzip2 for big binary distfiles (linux_lib, linux_devel) makes sense since these are very big and at least linux_lib is due to some updates and would cross my wire several times in the near future. That way people may use the port/package choice for choosing bzip2/gzip :-) Erich, do you copy? I'll take the advice of this thread and will use bzip2 for the distfiles I maintain (except rtdate :-). Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message