Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages
On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Changwoo Ryu wrote:
> I can't imagine any 31 MiB machine which needs to render megabytes of
It’s *additional* memory. On top of kernel, libc, apt, dpkg, and
whatever the user is running in parallel.
bye,
//mirabilos
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Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh-
ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant
detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions
in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"
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