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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:56:58
Message-Id: 1229705762.13304.1321.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict by Ciaran McCreesh
1 В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 14:45 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
2 > If it reads (and presumably uncompresses) all of them at startup
3 > anyway, what's the point in compressing them at all?
4
5 It makes size smaller: both index and data files are text files so
6 compression is very effective. All distributions I've checked compress
7 data files, some compress both data and index. Probably all desktop
8 users want dictionaries to be compressed because modern cpu's are really
9 fast in decompression and even on my 4-years old notebook it takes less
10 then second... But still there are environments where it's better to
11 keep dictionaries uncompressed. That's why I want to keep this feature
12 optional.
13
14 --
15 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>