Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:32:10 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:04:45 -0800 (PST), david@lang.hm wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Stefan Richter wrote: > > > Pavel Machek wrote: > >> On zaurus, kernel compilation takes 4 hours. (I.e. "one night"). So > >> that one is ... well ... done overnight. > >> > >> Untar is something I normally wait for, since you need to run > >> (interactive) oldconfig after that. > > > > If the download takes m minutes and unpacking and unarchiving tar.gz > > takes another n minutes, what difference does it make for this workflow > > when instead m + p minutes are spent for download + unpacking and > > unarchiving tar.bz2 or tar.xz? > > The difference is that the user is waiting for the n or m minutes, but > goes off and does something else for the p minutes. > > So it doesn't really matter if the compile takes 1 hour or 6 hours. As > Pavel noted, this is done overnight and it doesn't matter if it gets done > at 2am or 6am. > > But the uncompression has a user waiting for it (to do the config step), > so here it makes a big difference if it takes 6 minutes ot 8 minutes.
You totally missed Stefan's point. Read again.
-- Jean Delvare
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