MC wrote:
>> The global CD still has a fair bit of room on it
> 
> Does that one use 7zip?  Whatever compression it uses, is the faster
> compression on the standard image really worth the hassle of having
> people going out of their ways to cut space?
> 

Issuing only the lzma image was our original plan for 2008.05, but 
because the performance wasn't satisfactory in a significant percentage 
of cases, we decided to provide the two images.  Best case, lzma is 
about 50% slower, worst cases are several times slower.

> It sounds to me like using higher compression now and cutting down
> the fonts and java later is the best way to go.

Not viewed as an acceptable option at this point.

Dave

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