Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:26:48 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Message-ID: <200001230926.KAA81850@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <86duop$2n8d$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote in list.freebsd-current:
> If I may inject some possibly-irrelevant fact into this
> discussion... gzip (or rather, the ``deflate'' compression algorithm
> and the libz file format) has been adopted into a number of formal
> standards. It's likely that it will remain with us for a long time.
> For those of us who eschew bloatware, it continues to be entirely
> adequate.
I don't like bzip2 for the sole fact that it takes _ages_ to
compress files, compared to gzip. Saving 10% or 20% on disk
space is not worth wasting >= 10 times more CPU time than gzip.
Disk space is cheap nowadays, but upgrading to a CPU that is
10 times faster is not.
(I once tried to compress our FreeBSD ISO images with bzip2,
just to compare the space savings with gzip. I aborted the
experiment after 6 hours (!). gzip took about 30 minutes.
Consequently, bzip2 was considered unusable and went into the
trash can.)
I'd vote for keeping things as they are: bzip2 is fine as
a port.
Regards
Oliver
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