Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs

From: Narvi <narvi_at_haldjas.folklore.ee>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 00:34:58 +0300 (EEST)
On Wed, 7 May 2003, Erik Trulsson wrote:

> > which is a quite significant difference. I picked the file because of size
> > and not change of compression ratio, or check all the files (just in case
> > there are any benchmarking paranoids around). On the speed side, the speed
> > of bunzip2 only matters if the speed difference between it and gunzip were
> > user perceptible on even not really up to date at all hardware, which is
> > not the case AFAICT.
>
> Here you are wrong.  On old hardware the difference in speed (and the
> difference in memory needed) between bunzip2 and gunzip is quite
> noticable.
>

So... how old hardware are you talking about?

>
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> Erik Trulsson
> ertr1013_at_student.uu.se
>
Received on Wed May 07 2003 - 12:35:16 UTC

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