> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > > bzip2 has been around for a while and has been shipped since > > 4.4-RELEASE. :) When I see the constant "who put another > > three KB into the kernel and thus broke release?" against the > > "9KB plus for the loader versus 40KB gain for the kernel" > > switching to bzip2 should give some room to breath(sp?). > > Is there much difference in speed between the compression methods? That > is, would bzip2 be an issue on older, low-spec machines?
bzip2 is expensive in the compression pass; I don't think decompression is much different though. btw, thanks to Gerhard for pointing out that I don't pay close enough attention to my commit mail. 8) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
