Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 19:43:52 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> Cc: Thomas Seck <tmseck-lists@netcologne.de> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs Message-ID: <20030502174352.GE18677@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> In-Reply-To: <3EB2AC00.7070307@tcoip.com.br> References: <20030502171957.28624.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <3EB2AC00.7070307@tcoip.com.br>
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Daniel C. Sobral writes: >If two programs do the same thing, but one is GPL and the other is not, >the other one is clearly preferable for FreeBSD. The two programs, however, only do the same thing if you consider that they're both compressors. bzip2 eats much more resources than gzip, both space and time. And the algorithm is rather overkill for small files anyways. -- Matthias Buelow home: mkb/at/mukappabeta.de uni: mkb/at/informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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