Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict

[Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>]

В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 14:45 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
> If it reads (and presumably uncompresses) all of them at startup
> anyway, what's the point in compressing them at all?

It makes size smaller: both index and data files are text files so
compression is very effective. All distributions I've checked compress
data files, some compress both data and index. Probably all desktop
users want dictionaries to be compressed because modern cpu's are really
fast in decompression and even on my 4-years old notebook it takes less
then second... But still there are environments where it's better to
keep dictionaries uncompressed. That's why I want to keep this feature
optional.

-- 
Peter.