Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:48:03 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, 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: <200102070048.f170m3t53208@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20010206151710.A86851@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:13:56PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > > Bzip2 has a more liberal license and is a better (more efficien
t
> > > > usually) compressor. It is also being actively maintained. Some Linu
x
> > > > distros come with man-pages bzip2-ed instead of gzip-ed too. IMHO, w
e
> > > > 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?
Bunzip is not slower than gunzip, but uses a fair bit more memory if I
recall. It appears that this isn't much of an issue these days though.
> > Unless we really care the 5-10% savings in size, i'd rather _not_ use
> > it,
>
> I personally do for the 1st CD.
The last time I did some trials, using bzip2 globally instead of gzip on
the CD releases would give us enough room to put the cvs repo on there.
Cheers,
-Peter
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