svn commit: r250565 - head/etc

[Ed Schouten]

2013/5/12 Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru>:
> I'm afraid it could produce more harm than goodness on old hardware
> and/or other architectures like arm.

Any change we make at FreeBSD may or may not cause problems on old
hardware and/or other architectures like ARM. It's typically a case of
trial and error to see what happens.

In fact, I think that for embedded systems, using xz compression would
even be better. Many of those systems are often more storage space
constrained than CPU constrained (e.g. a 200 MHz wireless device with
only 8 MB of flash).

I think it's a pity the change has been reverted without bringing any
hard data to the table.

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Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>