Compressed MOD files?

Warren Turkal wt@atmos.colostate.edu
Mon Oct 30 19:06:00 GMT 2006


On Monday 30 October 2006 03:07, François-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> 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.

This sounds interesting, but how much real space usage reduction do you see?

wt
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Warren Turkal



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