Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 23:37:48 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r250565 - head/etc Message-ID: <CAJOYFBCdCQsU5ssf2mnMxOKRLbyz%2BHCMRTTBC9rZA9ha1mjMBQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305121952120.44610@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <201305121523.r4CFNxBR055568@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305121952120.44610@woozle.rinet.ru>
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2013/5/12 Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>: > I'm afraid it could produce more harm than goodness on old hardware > and/or other architectures like arm. Any change we make at FreeBSD may or may not cause problems on old hardware and/or other architectures like ARM. It's typically a case of trial and error to see what happens. In fact, I think that for embedded systems, using xz compression would even be better. Many of those systems are often more storage space constrained than CPU constrained (e.g. a 200 MHz wireless device with only 8 MB of flash). I think it's a pity the change has been reverted without bringing any hard data to the table. -- Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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