On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 09:37:51PM -0600, William Harrington wrote: > > Why was compressdoc included to begin with? I ran man <manpagehere> > between gzip or xz compresed files and noticed no difference > (humanly) between opening of the files. A render isn't done, it's a > decompression. man-db (or man) is what renders the page, but the user sees the time to decompress as well as the time to render (i.e. sort out highlighting and spaces) the first screen.
Certainly, on my current desktop unxz is only marginally slower than gunzip on the relevant compressed version of bash.1 and the difference will probably be overwhelmed by extra code to identify how the file was compressed. If you have an obsolete machine where the space saving is useful, feel free to test on that. I'm just saying that the old machines which benefit from space saving usually lack the horsepower to benefit from compression - just like using -O3 when compiling. But overall, I don't really care. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
