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Re: Compressed MOD files?
- From: Bud Davis <bdavis9659 at sbcglobal dot net>
- To: "François-Xavier" Coudert <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>, GFORTRAN <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:53:53 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Compressed MOD files?
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--- François-Xavier Coudert <fxcoudert@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick poll: do people think we should add an
> option to write
> (gzip-)compressed module files? (and autodetecting
> whether they're
> compressed or not when reading, which is pretty
> easy) It increases CPU
> usage, but it gets the disk space used by module
> files by a factor 5
> to 6 on my own codes.
>
> FX
>
my opinion:
No. making a human readable file not readable without
a very compelling reason is a bad thing to do.
disk is plentiful...time is expensive. i would always
trade disk space for compilation speed, even if it is
1%.
--bud