From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-dev+bounces-33796-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1LDieo-0000yL-6j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:56:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9832E0521; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7182DE0521 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (unknown [77.246.104.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACDF7651BB for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:56:53 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict From: Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20081219144552.750e544b@snowcone> References: <1229455276.2454.23.camel@localhost> <20081216192712.516a1d80@snowmobile> <1229457985.2454.30.camel@localhost> <20081218003449.GA7573@comet> <1229697641.13304.1258.camel@localhost> <20081219144552.750e544b@snowcone> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:56:02 +0300 Message-Id: <1229705762.13304.1321.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ee39796e-b709-4ece-9d34-1a8723409ffc X-Archives-Hash: ba1deb3dc56cadba656a70067c9d99b6 =D0=92 =D0=9F=D1=82=D0=BD, 19/12/2008 =D0=B2 14:45 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh= =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > 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. --=20 Peter.