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Geoff Keating writes: > > glibc-2.1.94 with gzip 2352 KB > > glibc-2.1.94 with bzip2 1812 KB > > ... so why not use bzip2 by default? Because decompression with bzip2 is much slower than decompression with gzip, by something like a factor of 7. On older 486/Sparc2/m68k machines the use of bzip2 is unbearable. Bruno
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