On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:50:44 -0800 Tim Kientzle <tim_at_kientzle.com> wrote: > >> Some time ago I do similar tests. Changing compression for base man's to bz2 or xz doesn't make much sense. > > Oh, agreed. The issue with small files is that they will always take up at least one sector [*]; different compression routines don't gain any benefit if they don't change the number of sectors needed to store the file. > > More than half of the manpages end up as 1K .gz catman files as it is; ~90% are 2K or smaller. > It might make sense if XZ decompression were significantly > faster than GZip decompression. (Especially since man pages > are decompressed much more often than they are compressed.) Oh, that's good! But this setting causes pkg-plist break of ports. Maybe, some ports chase bsd.own.mk (COMPRESS_CMD, COMPRESS_EXT), but it assumed that MANEXT is .gz:-(. Thank you. -- Norikatsu Shigemura <nork_at_FreeBSD.org>Received on Tue Dec 07 2010 - 16:00:13 UTC
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