Peter Gordon wrote:
Hi, list.
I'm on a brainstorm for my website work, and I got to thinking of a few of
ideas for Fedora that I believe would make it even cooler. I know FC6 is just
heading out of the proverbial door, but I'd like to get discussion going on
FC7+ things so that they will rock that much harder when implemented (if, in
fact, they are).
Firstly, there was talk at one point about switching the default RPM build
flags to use -Os (optimize for size, mostly) instead of -O2. For one, this
could potentially reduce the ISO sizes significantly. (I don't have any
specific numbers, but as I recall the estimate was something of the ~300 MB
range, give or take.) Also, this would mean that applications would
potentially feel faster because less would need to be read from disk, and hits
to processor cache would be increased, as well as being able to store more in
the RAM caching. Is this planned for the FC7/8 timeframe? If not, is there a
plan to implement such a thing at all, if even for specific packages that
would benefit from it?
I think you'd get more bang for the buck if you added support to RPM for
LZMA compression. It takes longer to compress but it decompresses
faster than bzip2 and at the max compression it's substantially better.
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