From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 13:04:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 342A037B401 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 13:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297DD43F93 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 13:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h47JnG6U081033; Wed, 7 May 2003 22:49:16 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost)h47JnGNq081030; Wed, 7 May 2003 22:49:16 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 22:49:16 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Matthias Buelow In-Reply-To: <20030507185153.GA14729@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> Message-ID: <20030507223638.D40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 20:04:12 -0000 On Wed, 7 May 2003, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Narvi writes: > > >Really - except for a very limited set of streaming applications with hard > >latency rules, going away from gzip to a BWT based compressors is a Very > >Good Thing (tm). > > for things like manpages and texinfo-files, even compress(1) would be > more than sufficient, if it weren't for license issues (but then again, > compress is still included, so what.) And it surely is a lot faster, > especially than bzip2. I definately don't agree on texinfo files - these aren't all that small. For example, the sizes of gcc.info.gz vs gcc.info.bz2 are: 306122 May 7 22:40 gcc.info.bz2 400320 May 7 22:41 gcc.info.gz which is a quite significant difference. I picked the file because of size and not change of compression ratio, or check all the files (just in case there are any benchmarking paranoids around). On the speed side, the speed of bunzip2 only matters if the speed difference between it and gunzip were user perceptible on even not really up to date at all hardware, which is not the case AFAICT. > > -- > Matthias Buelow > home: mkb/at/mukappabeta.de > uni: mkb/at/informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de >