Hello.
Some time ago I've modified stardict.eclass and added optional
possibility based on 'gzip' USE flag to compress index and dict data
files. But I realized too late that I need to document this USE flag
somewhere, and since it'll do similar things for all stardict-*
dictionaries (heh, more th
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:21:16 +0300
Peter Volkov wrote:
> Some time ago I've modified stardict.eclass and added optional
> possibility based on 'gzip' USE flag to compress index and dict data
> files. But I realized too late that I need to document this USE flag
> somewhere, and since it'll do simi
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:21:16 +0300
Peter Volkov wrote:
Some time ago I've modified stardict.eclass and added optional
possibility based on 'gzip' USE flag to compress index and dict data
files. But I realized too late that I need to document this USE flag
somewhere, an
В Втр, 16/12/2008 в 19:27 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
> What's the point of having this as an option at all? Is it really
> something that affects the end user in any way?
The reason is that this feature requires additional dependency on
app-text/dictd package (to compress dictionary data dictzi
On 23:06 Tue 16 Dec , Peter Volkov wrote:
> В Втр, 16/12/2008 в 19:27 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
> > What's the point of having this as an option at all? Is it really
> > something that affects the end user in any way?
>
> The reason is that this feature requires additional dependency on
>
В Срд, 17/12/2008 в 16:34 -0800, Donnie Berkholz пишет:
> Is that some huge package that takes an unreasonable amount of time to
> build or space to install?
Probably in this case it takes reasonable amount of time...
> If not, this doesn't seem like a very meaningful choice to me.
Well, your
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:40:41 +0300
Peter Volkov wrote:
> Well, your questions forced me to do my own investigation of gzip
> performance in one real-life scenario which I hope to use really
> soon. I took my Neo FreeRunner and tested gzip decompression speed
> there. Time to read 10Mb file is abou
В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 14:45 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
> If it reads (and presumably uncompresses) all of them at startup
> anyway, what's the point in compressing them at all?
It makes size smaller: both index and data files are text files so
compression is very effective. All distributions I've
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:56:02 +0300
Peter Volkov wrote:
> В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 14:45 +, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
> > If it reads (and presumably uncompresses) all of them at startup
> > anyway, what's the point in compressing them at all?
>
> It makes size smaller: both index and data files are t
В Птн, 19/12/2008 в 17:06 +, 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
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