Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:17:10 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, mi@aldan.algebra.com, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <20010206151710.A86851@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200102062313.f16NDus45358@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:13:56PM -0800 References: <13548.981500989@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200102062313.f16NDus45358@iguana.aciri.org>
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:13:56PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > Bzip2 has a more liberal license and is a better (more efficient
> > > usually) compressor. It is also being actively maintained. Some Linux
> > > distros come with man-pages bzip2-ed instead of gzip-ed too. IMHO, we
> > > should use it.
>
> my understanding is that bzip* is _way_ slower than gzip
> due to the algorithm used.
Bzip2, not bunzip2. Do you really care about the time to compress
packages?
> Unless we really care the 5-10% savings in size, i'd rather _not_ use
> it,
I personally do for the 1st CD.
> for portability and backward compatibility reasons.
What portability reasons? It is stock in NetBSD and Solaris 8.
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