Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[Sam Tygier]

Michael Poole wrote:
> In addition to what Phillip Susi said about CD-ROM versus CPU speed,
> consider network times.  The total time taken is Package Size /
> Bandwidth + Unpack Time.  This is smaller for 7zip when the network
> takes at least 11 seconds to transfer 8 MB -- up to about 5.7 Mbps.

most installs involve multiple files.

you equations is correct if all the downloads are done, and then all the decompression is done.

as downloading and decompressing require different resources (bandwidth, cpu), these could be effectivly parallelized. after a package is downloaded (or read from cd) it joins a decompression queue. even more time saving :-)

sam

		
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