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 ) id 1LDjEI-0006sS-TP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:33:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52504E044F; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:33:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFF1E044F for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:33:37 +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 05F726529C for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gzip-dict From: Peter Volkov To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20081219170623.150bc0ec@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> <1229705762.13304.1321.camel@localhost> <20081219170623.150bc0ec@snowcone> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:32:44 +0300 Message-Id: <1229707964.13304.1334.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail 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: e90560b5-4191-44d2-ab48-a4fb2ab70a83 X-Archives-Hash: 985f4c243455d9128c3074520adfdf8f =D0=92 =D0=9F=D1=82=D0=BD, 19/12/2008 =D0=B2 17:06 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh= =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > 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. --=20 Peter.