On 6/2/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Because on some architectures, there are not 2 GHz dual-core or quad-core CPUs available. Making them take double or triple the time for a 10% gain space is probably not acceptable.
It's not about saving space, it's about handling upstream release archives with a minimum of modifications. I agree about the performance concerns, and gzip has a very high performance to compression rate ratio, but handling upstream files unmodified saves developers time, and avoids the confusion about the origin of a tarball.
