On Friday 19 January 2007 02:19, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading > the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. This is done on a > reasonable fast i386 machine (3.2ghz, 1gb ram, two 250gb barracudas in > raid0). Now, if we change from gzip to a slower algorithm, the unpack > part will take even more time for this :/
Last time I checked the gzip source had no assembler optimisation for systems other than i386. So if your 3.2GHz machine (which obviously would be a P4 at least not an i386) is running the AMD64 instruction set then you could probably improve performance by running the 32bit binary. A compression algorithm that is more complex (slower) than the gzip algorithm but which is implemented in 64bit assembler might compare well with the current gzip performance for modern machines. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etbe.blogspot.com/ My Blog http://www.coker.com.au/sponsorship.html Sponsoring Free Software development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
