[haiku-development] Re: hpkgs and compression
- From: Jonathan Schleifer <js-haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:06:18 +0100
Am 16.03.2014 um 16:48 schrieb Julian Harnath <julian.harnath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Another option would be switching the hpkg compression algorithm to
> LZ4, which is optimized for performance and many times faster than
> DEFLATE. It's the commonly used compression algorithm in ZFS. See
> benchmark comparison here: http://code.google.com/p/lz4/ (in Web+ that
> table looks messed up though)
I agree that this would be better for storing it on disk, or maybe LZO. The
problem is: That means larger files to transfer over the net, as compressing
something compressed is inefficient. That's exactly the whole point: We should
not use the same compression for transfering an hpkg and storing an hpkg. That
was my idea: Leave the hpkg itself uncompressed, and compress it on the file
system (e.g. using LZO, LZ4) and compress it during transfer (e.g. LZMA).
That'll give the best of both worlds.
--
Jonathan
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