svn commit: r250565 - head/etc

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

Ed,

On Sun, 12 May 2013, Ed Schouten wrote:

> 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.

I would pretty much like more statistics about the issue as well; 
unfortunately, all I have handy are x86 hardware, and most of embedded-like 
systems aer amd64 atoms...

I think some testing should be done on different platforms before making any 
kind of decisions.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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