On Saturday 30 August 2008, Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote: > In systems with a low buffer cache (low RAM) using the original > compressed files yields faster results as the program has to read > the whole file each time from the disk. Although, if a system has > enough memory to cache the input files then processing the > uncompressed files is faster than the time need for reading the > compressed input and deflating it on the fly.
I expect that recompressing the file with lzo would give a better result, overall. It decompresses a lot faster than gzip and the file is still a lot smaller than uncompressed. We will implement some speed improvement after lenny, one way or the other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
