From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 19 22:27:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C768106564A for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:27:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA2B8FC15 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:27:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: FROM itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu (itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu [141.213.135.249]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4EC82D46.58318.20796 ; Authuser web; 19 Nov 2011 17:27:18 EST Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:27:18 -0500 From: William Bulley To: Daniel Staal Message-ID: <20111119222718.GC13594@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Staal , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:27:19 -0000 According to Daniel Staal on Sat, 11/19/11 at 10:06: > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > Just as a quick digression... > > xz has only marginal improvements in compressed size over bzip2, and takes > a lot more cpu/memory resources to compress. In most cases, I'd say it's > the wrong choice for a compression format. > > However, the one place where it is unequivocally the *best* choice is one > that will make it well known: Distributing archives. It does beat bzip2 by > a small amount, and it's *decompression* time is *much* faster than bzip2 - > on par with gzip. Plus decompression can be done in a fixed amount of RAM, > regardless of the size of the files being uncompressed. For files that are > compressed once and then decompressed many times on many different boxes - > like a FreeBSD release - it's a definite win. > > But for files that will be compressed and uncompressed regularly, or > compressed and usually never touched again, it's worth thinking about > what's the best balance of resources. Thanks for that explanation! :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|