I've been noticing lately that the newer source code tar.gz files are
taking longer to extract on some platforms. So I decided to watch an
extraction time for some anecdotal evidence. Using 7-Zip, the 7.1.4
source files took 2 minutes to extract to a SSD drive on my Windows
machine. The archive itself contains 19,155 files and is ~20MB in size.
I suspect that there are inefficiencies with writing lots of new,
small files to disk.
It looks like ~700 files are added each year to whatever new version is
released. The bulk of the new files seem to involve the test suite.
I'm only pointing out something I've noticed. I'm not compiling
anything when I just want to search/view the latest source code nor do I
run 'make test' when deploying, so the test suite is somewhat
superfluous for most of my use-cases. Test suites are useful and
important, which makes this an observation unless, of course, this
prompts someone to go forth and do something (whatever that might be).
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