From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 22 15:47: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4D714E6E; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.89]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA1FB5; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:47:03 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA20818; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:47:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:47:00 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Akinori MUSHA aka knu Cc: chuckr@picnic.mat.net, andrews@technologist.com, shige@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Message-ID: <20000123004700.E18600@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <20000122123109.E59732@shadow.blackdawn.com> <86r9f9lq6w.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <86r9f9lq6w.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org>; from knu@idaemons.org on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 07:03:19AM +0900 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20000123 00:01], Akinori MUSHA aka knu (knu@idaemons.org) wrote: >Yes, they are pretty big enough to see the difference between two... > > .tar.bz2 .tar.gz >lynx2.8.2rel1 1.4MB 1.8MB >WindowMaeker 0.61.1 1.6MB 1.9MB >gimp-1.1.13 6.2MB 8.0MB >kdebase-1.1.2 7.0MB 8.9MB >linux-2.2.14 12.3MB 15.2MB > >It's crystal clear bzip2 wins in these cases. and far enough. Then look at the memory overhead caused by bzipping versus gzipping and you'll loose. Anyways, we have had this discussion a few times in the past. Lets consult the archives and see what the reason was why we didn't do it back then. I am in favor with Chuck here. Its fine as it is, as a port. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd W/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/B-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Ain't gonna spend the rest of my Life, quietly fading away... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message