On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:59:15PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>  There is some wasted download especially with bzip2s
> chunkyness but overall that should be minimal.

Unfortunately not; 'bzip2 -9' processes stuff in data blocks of 900kB
(uncompressed); since the ratio is ~ 4.4 , you would always need to
download ~ 200kB of data to get the first block

a.

-- 
Andrea Mennucc


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