On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 08:50 -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: > Patrick, > > did you benchmark CPU load? Often bzip2 takes 3x as long to > uncompress a package than bzip. Often, the space savings doesn't > justify the cost of how long it takes for the cpu to decompress the > archive.
I did not compare CPU load. Maybe I should do that :-) But the average user will take longer to download than to uncompress, so my rationale for this experiment was space reduction "at all costs". The 15% average gain should outweigh CPU issues. Also - on my test system I managed to _compress_ at 1,5MB/s. If anyone could provide some performance numbers for slower systems it'd be easier to evaluate the tradeoff. Patrick -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
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