From esr at thyrsus.com Mon Jan 31 21:44:40 2005
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From: Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>
To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: radical suggestion for fc4 release
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:44:21 -0500
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Jeff Johnson <n3npq(a)nc.rr.com>:
> Very very very foolish imho, as rpm is rate limited by decompression,
> and bzip2 uncompress is known 5-7 times slower than gzip.

Is that a problem?  Processors are speeding up faster than media are
getting larger -- thus, trdsing clocks for space seems like the
right thing.

I'm open to counterargument here -- I just want to be sure you've =

thought through the tradeoffs completely.
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