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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo
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On Wed, 7 May 2003, Erik Trulsson wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Here you are wrong.  On old hardware the difference in speed (and the
> difference in memory needed) between bunzip2 and gunzip is quite
> noticable.
>

So... how old hardware are you talking about?

>
> --
> <Insert your favourite quote here.>
> Erik Trulsson
> ertr1013@student.uu.se
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