[Clipart] Bzip archives?

Nicu Buculei nicu at apsro.com
Sat Feb 5 04:28:35 PST 2005


Glen Turner wrote:
> 
>> IMO, we can drop tar.gz and provide only tar.bz2 in the future, and do 
>> not waste storage space on the server.
> 
> 
> You should be aware that about 4MB of memory is needed to decompress
> files compressed with "bzip2 -9".  I don't think that this is a
> problem for your particular application, more just pointing out
> why other websites often provide .gz and .bz2 files (and yes, it's
> partly historical as it's only in the past few years that 4MB
> has sounded "small").

i imagine more than 4MB of memory is needed by any application able to 
render our SVG files.
however, we already provide the downloadable packages in zip format, so 
i imagine if the bz2 package can't be used because of memory 
constraints, the zip one is available as a fallback option.



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