On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 09:39:55PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Man pages tend to be smaller than that: out of 94752 man pages in main, > 71966(!) are smaller with gzip, and 94088 have gzip < 110% of xz. > > Thus, just as I strongly recommend using xz everywhere for .deb files, let's > use gzip everywhere for man pages with no more than a few exceptions. > > _All_ files where changing compression gives a gain of >10KB are: > > gz | xz | gz-xz | filename > 44492 | 32888 | 11604 | man3/QGauss.3.gz > 46174 | 32716 | 13458 | man3/Color::Library::Dictionary::NBS_ISCC::M.3pm.gz > 66121 | 51340 | 14781 | man3/InfFE.3.gz > 67316 | 52272 | 15044 | man3/ContinuationSystem.3.gz > 76441 | 58656 | 17785 | man1/gm.1.gz > 99346 | 73964 | 25382 | man5/postconf.5.gz > 136446 | 106680 | 29766 | ru/man1/mplayer.1.gz > 179569 | 134548 | 45021 | man3/Image::ExifTool::TagNames.3pm.gz > 153320 | 100544 | 52776 | man3/FE.3.gz
Oops, my bad, these results were mistakenly filtered to: xz*5<gz*4 and xz+10240<gz rather than xz+10240<gz like I said. Still, 51 files with diff >10KB, 9 with diff >20KB. And obviously the additional ones give less than 25% benefit... -- 1KB // Yo momma uses IPv4!
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