В Срд, 17/12/2008 в 16:34 -0800, Donnie Berkholz пишет:
Is that some huge package that takes an unreasonable amount of time to
build or space to install?
Probably in this case it takes reasonable amount of time...
If not, this doesn't seem like a very meaningful choice to me.
Well, your
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:40:41 +0300
Peter Volkov p...@gentoo.org wrote:
Well, your questions forced me to do my own investigation of gzip
performance in one real-life scenario which I hope to use really
soon. I took my Neo FreeRunner and tested gzip decompression speed
there. Time to read 10Mb
В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 14:45 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
If it reads (and presumably uncompresses) all of them at startup
anyway, what's the point in compressing them at all?
It makes size smaller: both index and data files are text files so
compression is very effective. All distributions I've
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:56:02 +0300
Peter Volkov p...@gentoo.org wrote:
В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 14:45 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
If it reads (and presumably uncompresses) all of them at startup
anyway, what's the point in compressing them at all?
It makes size smaller: both index and data
В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 17:06 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
But disk space is cheap. How big are the dictionaries? The vim
dictionaries are around half a meg uncompressed, and if you're looking
to save a meg or two in disk space on the kind of system that includes
dictionaries then you're doing
Peter Volkov p...@gentoo.org posted
1229707964.13304.1334.ca...@localhost, excerpted below, on Fri, 19 Dec
2008 20:32:44 +0300:
В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 17:06 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
But disk space is cheap. How big are the dictionaries? The vim
dictionaries are around half a meg
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 00:16 +, Duncan wrote:
But a gig of space (or even half a gig)... that's rather
different as there are still a decent number of people for whom that's 1%
or more of their total, who may be willing to take that latency as they
have better things to do with the
Jeremy Olexa wrote:
This causes me pain on my hosts that don't have =bash-3.1[0] for
/bin/bash. Because I can't install portage with an old bash until I
get a new python installed which uses python.eclass which isn't
supported with my /bin/bash (quite circular indeed)
Technically there are
