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From: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mysterious gzipped images
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:43:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761vgfarw.fsf@kima.orebokech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3iozgux9t.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 08 Aug 2013 15:28:46 +0200")

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> gzip is "free", since it's already built into 99% of Emacs builds
> already.

This argument applies just as well to other compression types, e.g. in
Debian all variants of Emacs 24 are built with libxml support, and
libxml is linked with liblzma so xz would also be "free".

> I think we can rely on external programs for compression.  It's not
> something that Emacs needs to do efficiently.

Relying on external programs doesn't necessarily work on all platforms.
If we can have a built-in version of anything, we should prefer that to
using external programs.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-08 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-06 22:20 Mysterious gzipped images Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-06 22:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-06 23:05   ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-06 23:38     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-07  1:08       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-07  8:51         ` Julien Danjou
2013-08-07 14:35         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-07 16:47           ` chad
2013-08-08 10:35           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 10:57             ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-11 19:44               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 13:22             ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-08 14:06               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 15:31                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-11 22:05                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 13:24             ` Romain Francoise
2013-08-08 13:28               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 13:36                 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-08-08 13:55                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 14:06                     ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-08-08 14:09                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 15:43                 ` Romain Francoise [this message]
2013-08-08 15:52                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-11 19:51                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 14:47             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-11 19:47               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12  0:54                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 14:05                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12 15:09                     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 15:20                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 16:27                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12 16:42                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 12:13                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 12:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 13:06                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12 13:29                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 23:40                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-14 13:09                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-14 15:12                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-17 15:01                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-17 15:27                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-17 17:04                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-18 17:06                                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-07 18:25         ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-08-07 21:06           ` FFI (was: Mysterious gzipped images) Stefan Monnier
2013-08-08  0:50             ` Stephen J. Turnbull

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