Ed, On Sun, 12 May 2013, Ed Schouten wrote:
> 2013/5/12 Dmitry Morozovsky <ma...@rinet.ru>: > > I'm afraid it could produce more harm than goodness on old hardware > > and/or other architectures like arm. > > Any change we make at FreeBSD may or may not cause problems on old > hardware and/or other architectures like ARM. It's typically a case of > trial and error to see what happens. > > In fact, I think that for embedded systems, using xz compression would > even be better. Many of those systems are often more storage space > constrained than CPU constrained (e.g. a 200 MHz wireless device with > only 8 MB of flash). > > I think it's a pity the change has been reverted without bringing any > hard data to the table. I would pretty much like more statistics about the issue as well; unfortunately, all I have handy are x86 hardware, and most of embedded-like systems aer amd64 atoms... I think some testing should be done on different platforms before making any kind of decisions. -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: ma...@freebsd.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- ma...@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
