On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 09:34 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > > > BTW, you guys misread my statement. I have 3gb of mbox files that are > > > compressed already with 'bzip2 -9' .. > Naah i didn't misread it, i just forgot to mention it in my reply. > Still, disk is cheap. Really really cheap. Hey, Houston, we have _that_ problem :) Disks are cheap but also slow. zlib removes a bunch of I/O overhead and puts it on CPU. Since CPU is also cheap enough and idle most of the time, compression is still a Good Thing (TM). Cheers, -- __________ | | | | Enver ALTIN (a.k.a. skyblue) | | Software developer, IT consultant | FRONT | |==========| FrontSITE Bilgi Teknolojisi A.Ş. |_____SITE_| http://www.frontsite.com.tr/
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