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List: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: AVFS: A Virtual File System
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date: 1999-05-05 8:40:39
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> > > Well, on my old p166, gzip was quite a bit faster than using gzread, both
> > > were compiled with the same optimizations.
> >
> > Here are some numbers: (you cannot actually reproduce these until the
> > next avfs version, because it needs a 3 line modification, to make it
> > not cache the whole uncompressed file if the "+" parameter is given)
> >
> > I think the difference is quite insignificant.
>
> I'm not quite sure what your numbers prove, but I know what happened when
> I modified the kioslave for 1.1 to use libz. I'll try it again (w/ the
> HEAD branch) and see what happens.
If AVFS just adds overhead without providing any substantial
improvements
than I don't see the point in using AVFS. (or libz)
Cheers,
Waldo
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