[PATCH setup] Add new option '--compact-os'
Christian Franke
Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Thu May 13 14:45:56 GMT 2021
Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> ...
>> When running a shell script, certain executables (especially coreutils,
>> gawk, sed, grep, find) are not so very infrequently accessed. Is this
>> compression really feasible for these binaries? Did you compare shell
>> script performance with non-compressed, XPRESS16K and LZX compressed
>> /bin dir?
>
> Good point. Now I did a test with a ./configure script run after
> reboot: There was significant difference with /bin/*.exe (only)
> uncompressed, NTFS-, XPRESS16K- or LZX-compressed. Time was always
> around 23s.
Of course this should be: "... . There was *no* significant difference
...", sorry.
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