Re: bzip vs gzip
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 12:32:00PM +1000, Shane King wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 06:22:34PM -0800, Oscar Levi wrote:
> > Please recognize that the decompression performance of bzip2 is
> > substantially worse. For the source archive of the 2.2.1 kernel, the
> > decompression goes from 4.4 seconds to 29.2 seconds--300MHz PII, four
> > samples averaged.
> >
> > IMHO, even the 25% space improvement may not be worth the order of
> > magnitude performance loss.
>
> On the other hand, the kernel archive is in the order of 10mb gzipped. So
> bzip2 saves you 2.5mb.
No to mention the amount of space it could save on the archive as a
whole, which equates to CD sizes and mirrors pulses.
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