> From: Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mike Smith wrote:
> gzipped binaries are actually a terrible idea; they actually *waste*
> space in most cases.
Suprising, They saved space for a 200M disc in a 486 laptop with 3.[2,3,or4],
it was so tight for space I gzipped everything, (entire output of src/ except
kernel), to save space to then install X/ or something else big.
That laptop has now gone to 4.0, & aout to elf, & a 1.5G disc, so no incentive
to do it all again to see how much FreeBSD-4 gzipped aout binary tree might
save/waste on a whole tree. BTW I was `strip'ing everything, did not use
more than standard optimiser, & didnt compile with -g.
Script I used is on http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/gzip_bins
Julian
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