Peter Volkov <p...@gentoo.org> posted 1229707964.13304.1334.ca...@localhost, excerpted below, on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:32:44 +0300:
> 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. I believe this is all people have been asking, really. For a gig of data, compression to under a couple hundred megs sounds worthwhile. For a hundred megs, compression to twenty megs, or even ten or five, not so much, as on the fast machines a hundred megs or so of space shouldn't be an issue, while on the slow machines, the decompression latency isn't tolerable. But a gig of space (or even half a gig)... that's rather different as there are still a decent number of people for whom that's 1% or more of their total, who may be willing to take that latency as they have better things to do with the space. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
