Re: Space wasting

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:43:15AM -0800, Daniel L. Rall wrote:
> Compressing the text base has come up before, and is a Good Idea. Having a
> WC whose meta data more than doubles the size of the actual content the WC
> is storing is annoying. I have literally hundreds of CVS WC's on my
> workstation at home, and as cheap as disk space is, my time spent to
> upgrade to bigger disks is not. Doing something about this greediness
> post-1.0 is completely reasonable.

Compressing files does not come for free either however. People with a
lot of small files or with binary files that aren't compressable may end
up with an increase in disk space used if we add compression.

Also compression comes at the cost of speed when writing the files out.
Decompression is usually pretty fast. However, compression is usually
slower.

Then you also have the difficulty of finding a compression library that
is usable on on the platforms APR is and that doesn't have licensing
complications with our license.

I think our best bet for reducing disk space is to provide an option to
only fill in the text-base as needed.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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