Messages in this thread | | | From | ketil@infotek ... | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: bzip2 for kernel dists? | Date | 12 Dec 1997 09:23:33 +0100 |
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Mitch Davis <mjd#NOSPAM@nsmd.aus.hp.com> writes:
> Other people's mileage may vary, but I have found bunzip2 to be > absolutely hideously SLLOOOWWW. The following test shows bunzip2 > to be 10 times slower to decompress than gunzip:
To point out the obvious, while 25 seconds might be a long time for unpacking an archive, it is not particularly long for a multi-megabyte download. With a 64Kb line, a megabyte takes about sixteen seconds under optimal conditions - if you can shave a couple of Mb off the distribution, it will clearly be worth it to many users. (And even to ftp-site owners the reduced network load on the server might be worth the extra disk space for *both* compression types - or even the CPU cost of compressing on the fly - although that is more dubious)
~kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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