Peter Kovacs wrote:
> jdk1.2pre-v1.tar.bz2 24457274
> jdk1.2pre-v1.tar.gz 26062044
>
> Means a 6.1% better compression rate. Is it really that much improvement? If it was
>at least 15%...
>
Well, that looks like 1.6 MB per download. So, multiplied by the 500,000 downloads
it'll get :),
that's a lot of traffic that can be saved, esp. for a non-commercial provider.
If bzip2 is "better", then we should use it for -everything-. It doesn't matter if it
hurts a bit in
the short run. As long as there's a new version coming of (say) tar that knows about
it, and it makes
sense, then it should be done.
This, to me, is a BIG strength of the Linux world. Choices are made because of
quality, and we go
through sometimes painful changes because it's better in the long run. (I'm thinking
of elf format, c
library changes, etc.) In Dos/Windows, this rarely happens: they're tied to an old
customer base that
uses crap, and so new versions must also be crappy.
- Robb
PS: I put better in quotes, because I'm not so sure we can make a flat judgement like
that: bzip has a
higher compression rate, but it seems much slower than gzip. So, it may not be
appropriate for all
uses.
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