>Why ? It's just flipping a few switches at compiler level... That only gains you a few percentage points.
We're talking about a factor 10 of performance lost because of bunzip2; the compiler will not find that. >> Because it's a >> CPU resource hog and only provides a couple of percentage points >> reduction in the compressed file size compared to gzip. By far a >> better solution is to ship .gz install files. >> >> The original decision to ship .bz2 install files was flawed IMHO. > >Erm, I have to disagree... "bzip2" is in some cases _far_ better than >"gzip" - it depends what needs to be compressed... and the extra space >saved allows to squish more stuff on the CDs/DVDs ... Unfortunately, the Solaris binary packages do not fall in that category. Specifically, for net installs I'd like to be able to run "bunzip2togzip" to make installs faster. Casper
