On Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 23:46:12 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 12/21/11 5:37 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 23:34:39 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
I just downloaded and re-compressed everything with 7zip, the
reduction was not spectacular at all - from 21.8MB to 17.3MB.
Bwuh? I'm seeing a reduction to 11.6MB (10.5 with ultra
compression).
I used the standard settings. After tweaking stuff, I got 5.5
MB for the OSX necessary files only.
The point is a smaller .zip and a faster site will benefit
*everyone*. For extra benefit of 7z users, fine, we can add
that option. But it shouldn't be the only one and the focus of
our initial efforts.
That's true. 7-Zip reduces the download size (and thus, speed) by
at most one half. From a quick test just now, ftp.digitalmars.com
is FIFTY times slower than Ubuntu's download servers for me.
