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- From: ado@ibg1.ibg.sub.org (Christoph Adomeit)
- Subject: SLS, why don't you use gzip for compression ?
- Organization: ibg
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:55:46 GMT
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- Hi SLS-Makers,
-
- why don't you use gzip for compression of your Disks ?
- As long as gzip is on the distribution I don't see any compatibility-
- problems.
- I benchmarked gzip a little and found out that eg : gcc-2.3.3-source
- has an original size of : 19901952 bytes
- compressed with "compress" : 7350491 bytes
- compressed with "freeze" : 5761878 bytes
- compressed with "gzip" : 5076738 bytes
-
- This is about 30 % saving versus "compress".
- (Might be fewer with binaries)
- Imagine how many Gigabytes of SLS are blown through the net every day,
- how many disks are written every day and how many Millions of Dollars
- have to be paid for this.
-
- It would really be a great saving.
- Bye
- Christoph
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