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Re: gzipped charmap installation

To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: gzipped charmap installation
From: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:03:45 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
References: <14807.12909.174132.857121@honolulu.ilog.fr><200010012148.OAA13092@geoffk.org>

Geoff Keating writes:

> >    glibc-2.1.94 with gzip    2352 KB
> >    glibc-2.1.94 with bzip2   1812 KB
> 
> ... so why not use bzip2 by default?

Because decompression with bzip2 is much slower than decompression
with gzip, by something like a factor of 7. On older 486/Sparc2/m68k
machines the use of bzip2 is unbearable.

Bruno

References:
- gzipped charmap installation
  - From: Bruno Haible
- Re: gzipped charmap installation
  - From: Geoff Keating

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