From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 23 1:26:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831F814F3F for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 01:26:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA81850; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:26:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:26:48 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001230926.KAA81850@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-current In-Reply-To: <86duop$2n8d$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message