Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 19:29:37 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: David O'Brien <dev-null@nuxi.com>, Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs Message-ID: <20030502172937.GB18677@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> In-Reply-To: <20030502071926.GC3258@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502153334.A70914@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20030502071926.GC3258@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien writes: >It removes the depandancy (well reduces it) on one more GPV'ed binary. :-) Then how about implementing the algorithm gzip is using (some LZ77 afaik) in a "free" program? A high-profile compressor like bzip2, which invests a lot of cpu time and memory(!) for squeezing out the last byte imho isn't really suitable for a general purpose, fast compressor (and one which doesn't eat several megabytes for decompression, this is certainly an issue on small machines, although, I have to admit, to many users these days the concept of having memory sizes of only 8 megabytes in some environments may seem totally alien but think of embedded devices or some old machine as small router.) -- Matthias Buelow home: mkb/at/mukappabeta.de uni: mkb/at/informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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