On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:19:56 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:
"Roman Ivanov" <[email protected]> wrote in message
Storing configs in zip files would increase boot and load times, because
applications would waste cycles on unzipping them. That is bloat of a
worse kind.
I'm not sure that would be the case if the data was stored on a hard
drive
(as opposed to one of those flash drives), because wouldn't the cost of
extra disk access typically be greater than decoding a
non-top-of-the-line
zip encoding? (Not that I really care all that much either way.)
Unless your text file is on the order of 200k bytes, you don't get much
savings :) hard drives read blocks, not bytes, so the relationship of
load time to bytes is not linear.
-Steve
