From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pre-test windows binaries
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 11:26:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87io08qkro.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20160324T184654-488@post.gmane.org> (Fabrice Popineau's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:56:31 +0000 (UTC)")
Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com> writes:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>
>> > I agree too that Windows should not be a special case. However, I'll
>> > prefer uncompressed files on all platforms (except perhaps those that
>> > are too constrained.)
>>
>> That's your prerogative. But I think that compressing the files is the
>> better default.
>
> Seems to spare about 30% of disk space on my NTFS partition:
>
> lisp directory size: 71 827 784 bytes
> actual lisp directory size on disk: 77 844 480 bytes
>
> After uncompressing all .el.gz files :
>
> lisp directory size: 112 124 612 bytes
> actual lisp directory size on disk: 118 095 872 bytes
>
> So there is definitely some benefit in compressing them.
And none at all if you have use NTFS compression. Also, if you stop
talking about percentages, then we are talking about 30Mb, i.e. nothing
at all.
If reading them is transparent, why not? If it requires anything at all
from the user, why?
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-27 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-19 21:40 pre-test windows binaries Phillip Lord
2016-03-20 5:32 ` psachin
2016-03-20 20:23 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-20 6:25 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-20 20:27 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-20 21:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-20 21:42 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-20 22:16 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-20 22:39 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-20 23:15 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-22 23:28 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-03-23 0:38 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-23 22:17 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-03-23 23:05 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-24 6:54 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-03-24 9:05 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-24 9:15 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-03-24 14:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-03-24 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-24 17:56 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-03-27 10:26 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2016-03-27 10:20 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-22 13:04 ` Alan Third
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-04-04 13:51 Lode Leroy
2016-04-04 18:43 ` Alan Third
2016-04-04 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-04 18:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-05 19:46 ` Arash Esbati
2016-04-05 13:11 ` Phillip Lord
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