On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 00:16 +0000, Duncan wrote: > 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.
If you are dealing with rotating media, I wouldn't be even so sure that 1GB unpacked is quicker than packed 100-200MB. On your typical desktop computer with rotating HDDs, it could very well be quite the opposite, as seek and disk access time can be dozens and hundreds of times slower than a simple zlib inflate, which is a relatively quick operation on x86's. Now of course on something like the Neo FreeRunner, where we'd likely be dealing with a flash based media and an embedded CPU (something like arm7 I guess?, no I don't need to know, I could just google if I did), read from flash is more likely to be quicker. -- Mart Raudsepp Gentoo Developer Mail: l...@gentoo.org Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio
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