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List: openbsd-ports
Subject: Re: RFC#8 - bzip2
From: Gerardo Santana Gomez Garrido <santana () openbsd ! org ! mx>
Date: 2003-02-27 4:21:27
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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.
--
Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido | "Entre los individuos como entre las
http://www.openbsd.org.mx/~santana/ | las naciones, el respeto al derecho
OpenBSD México | ajeno es la paz" - Benito Juárez
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