Bug#137709: feature request: gzip /var/lib/apt/lists/*

[Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>]

> On a performance note, dpkg has support for reading status/available, either
> with mmap, or with block reads(apt only uses mmap).  My performance testing
> showed the difference in speed, with a sufficiently large block size, was just
> noise.

i thought the reason apt uses mmap on the packages/sources files is so that
it can do fast, random accesses to various pieces of package data. you can't 
do this with block reads... or am i missing something?

randolph
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