Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 22:15:34 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs Message-ID: <20030507201534.GB14729@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> In-Reply-To: <20030507223638.D40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> References: <20030507185153.GA14729@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> <20030507223638.D40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Narvi writes: >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 Hmm, one might consider 100K insignificant on today's disk sizes :) >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. I would disagree if this were a NetBSD list ;) But since it isn't, you basically might be right. A bigger matter is the working set of the bunzip2 process, I think it's always at least 3-4 megs while uncompressing. But then again, this isn't NetBSD, which you would want to run on "obsolete" hardware (like an old, slow VAX with 8 megs RAM, for example). ;) -- Matthias Buelow home: mkb/at/mukappabeta.de uni: mkb/at/informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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