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

[Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>]

В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 17:06 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
> But disk space is cheap. How big are the dictionaries? The vim
> dictionaries are around half a meg uncompressed, and if you're looking
> to save a meg or two in disk space on the kind of system that includes
> dictionaries then you're doing something seriously wrong...

Size is times larger. All dictionary data (without index) I have
currently installed occupies 93M in compressed form and uncompressed
it'll take 402M. This does not count dictionaries I'm going to add into
the tree. If I remember correctly all dictionaries I needed from
stardict site took about 1Gbyte (uncompressed). Also some people use
more then two languages and then they'll use more dictionaries.

> Really, all that compression seems to do is save a small amount of
> irrelevant disk space, at the cost of requiring more disk space and
> memory for a new library and slowing things down to a level that's
> unacceptable on some systems. Compression makes sense for network
> transfers, backups and file formats that do their own domain specific
> compression. Elsewhere? Likely not so much.

I agree in general but in this specific case compression does a good
job.

-- 
Peter.