Compressed MOD files?

[Bud Davis]

--- 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