В Срд, 17/12/2008 в 16:34 -0800, Donnie Berkholz пишет:
> Is that some huge package that takes an unreasonable amount of time to
> build or space to install?
Probably in this case it takes reasonable amount of time...
> If not, this doesn't seem like a very meaningful choice to me.
Well, your
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:40:41 +0300
Peter Volkov wrote:
> Well, your questions forced me to do my own investigation of gzip
> performance in one real-life scenario which I hope to use really
> soon. I took my Neo FreeRunner and tested gzip decompression speed
> there. Time to read 10Mb file is abou
В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 14:45 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
> If it reads (and presumably uncompresses) all of them at startup
> anyway, what's the point in compressing them at all?
It makes size smaller: both index and data files are text files so
compression is very effective. All distributions I've
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:56:02 +0300
Peter Volkov wrote:
> В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 14:45 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
> > If it reads (and presumably uncompresses) all of them at startup
> > anyway, what's the point in compressing them at all?
>
> It makes size smaller: both index and data files are t
В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 17:06 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
> But disk space is cheap. How big are the dictionaries? The vim
> dictionaries are around half a meg uncompressed, and if you're looking
> to save a meg or two in disk space on the kind of system that includes
> dictionaries then you're doing
Peter Volkov posted
1229707964.13304.1334.ca...@localhost, excerpted below, on Fri, 19 Dec
2008 20:32:44 +0300:
> В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 17:06 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
>> But disk space is cheap. How big are the dictionaries? The vim
>> dictionaries are around half a meg uncompressed, and if y
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 00:16 +, Duncan wrote:
> But a gig of space (or even half a gig)... that's rather
> different as there are still a decent number of people for whom that's 1%
> or more of their total, who may be willing to take that latency as they
> have better things to do with the sp
Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> This causes me pain on my hosts that don't have >=bash-3.1[0] for
> /bin/bash. Because I can't install portage with an old bash until I
> get a new python installed which uses python.eclass which isn't
> supported with my /bin/bash (quite circular indeed)
>
> Technically the
