[haiku-development] Re: hpkgs and compression
- From: Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:35:57 +0100 (CET)
> On March 10, 2014 at 6:35 PM Jonathan Schleifer
> <js-haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Any opinions on this? This would give us the best of both worlds:
>
> * We would have small packages to transfer and save a *lot* of bandwidth.
> * There would be no extra "Decompressing package" step.
> * We would not have a performance penalty.
Have you actually tested the performance penalty on old hardware?
It doesn't matter much if you cannot read from packages <300 MB/s on modern
hardware either; application data usually isn't large to begin with, and is
afterwards cached in RAM.
> The only problem that I know of would be:
> "What about packages that are not hosted in a repository?"
You missed: "Wasting a lot of disk space with uncompressed packages". With
today's SSDs, this is actually a problem again.
I for one prefer to keep them compressed on my disks.
Bye,
Axel.
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