Re: Pack200 compression of packaged jars
Am 26.04.2013 15:40, schrieb Emmanuel Bourg:
> Le 26/04/2013 15:11, Emmanuel Bourg a écrit :
>
>> Has anyone considered compressing the jars in the binary packages with
>> pack200? I think this could significantly reduce the size of the
>> packages.
>
> As an example, I compressed the jar in the libcommons-jexl2-java package
> with:
>
> pack200 --no-gzip --segment-limit=-1 --effort=9 --modification-time=latest
>
> This preserves the debug symbols.
>
> The .deb went from 239764 bytes to 71524 bytes, 70% less.
what is the overhead on startup time when these need to get unpacked? Maybe
pick a non-x86 architecture for this as well.
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