From openbsd-ports  Thu Feb 27 04:21:27 2003
From: Gerardo Santana Gomez Garrido <santana () openbsd ! org ! mx>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:21:27 +0000
To: openbsd-ports
Subject: Re: RFC#8 - bzip2
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=104631954601379

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:02:39PM -0500, Joseph C. Bender wrote:
> At 06:52 PM 02/26/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >I'll work on this problem.
> >
> 	And how are you going to get around the RAM and processor issues on
> older/slower machines?
> 
> This is going to raise hell on some of my 486en, Pentia and older sparcs.
> 
> >However, please, note that my request is simply to import bzip2 in main src 
> >tree. After it is inside by default everyone could think how to use it to
> get 
> >better compression or save bandwidth and disk space.
> >
> 	And at what performance cost?  I don't have all day to install a machine.
> 
> 	And if you really want it, it is in ports, or available as a package.
> 
> Disk is cheap.  And distfiles can (and should, for large enough sites) be
> mirrored locally.

Bandwidth is not cheap. I wonder if the performance penalty is really SO big.

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http://www.openbsd.org.mx/~santana/	|  las naciones, el respeto al derecho
OpenBSD México				|  ajeno es la paz" - Benito Juárez