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 -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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