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Re: A few suggestions for bugzilla mail to gcc-bugs
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Segher Boessenkool <segher at koffie dot nl>,gcc <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:37:48 -0400
- Subject: Re: A few suggestions for bugzilla mail to gcc-bugs
- References: <20030524022356.GA7386@nevyn.them.org> <557D9182-8D93-11D7-AC8F-000A95A34564@dberlin.org> <20030524145923.GA15538@nevyn.them.org> <jek7c4gsg4.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.56.0306021720260.21428@dberlin.org>
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:33:15PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
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>
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:
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> > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> >
> > |> Can you query the compressed size more quickly? We don't need to be
> > |> precise here...
> >
> > "gzip -l" should do the trick, provided that the input is seekable.
> This isn't shell script, it's perl, forking a new process in a very often
> used cgi script for every single attachment is *not* a good idea.
>
> But that's besides the point anyway.
> The data is *not* in gzip format in memory.
> It has no gzip header with the size in it in front.
>
> The *only* way to get the size is to decompress it.
> I could, of course, convert them all to be in-memory gzip files, but i'm a
> bit busy with other things at the moment to care about this.
> :)
I still think we should have some way to get at the compressed size.
But I assume it's in the DB somewhere and databases were never my
strong point.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer