From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 3 06:10:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA28975 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA28967 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca3-217.ix.netcom.com [209.109.233.217]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA05290; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:08:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.8.8/8.6.9) id GAA24017; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:05:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:05:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199901031405.GAA24017@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> To: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk CC: ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Michael Searle on Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:41:24 +0000 (GMT)) Subject: Re: Policy on bzip2? From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * It is several times slower for decompression as well, and requires a lot more * memory than gunzip (even in low memory, low speed mode). On a fast machine * bunzip2 decompresses at about 500K/s (or 250K/s in low memory mode) while gunzip * gets 3500K/s, so while it would speed up most net installs it would slow down a * CD install. Well, we're talking about port distfiles (not packages) here, so I don't think it is that much of a problem. For instance, xemacs-20.4 takes 13 seconds to decompress with gunzip on my P6-200. It should take about 2 minutes with bzip2. Considering that it takes half an hour (or so) to compile it anyway, it's probably OK for it to take an extra minute or two to decompress. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message