Re: Another suggestion

Gustavo Niemeyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
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> Why is that particularly valuable? The xml parsers I've seen all read
> through the gzipping transparently and I've not noticed a speed hit by
> reading it as a gzipped file.

How many packages you've done your measurements with? What about with
bzip2?

> Where's the advantage of storing it uncompressed?

Speed. Uncompressing it only once prevents paying the same price
everytime you read them.

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