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Re: [MiNT] opkg / coldmint

Hi,

On perjantai 15 helmikuu 2013, Ole wrote:
>  Am Freitag, den 15.02.2013, 00:37 +0100 schrieb Ole
>  <ole@monochrom.net>:
> > I thought this is an bug... but I found out, that it's
> > not hanging, but instead the single steps of the
> > installation process take so long. But especially
> > extracting the data files into an FILE* is taking much too long.
> 
>  The files are read from another FILE * - that one is a pipe to gzip
>  process.

To a real GNU gzip, not one of the opkg processes (with performance-wise
inferior deflate algorithm implementation)?


>  It seems that there is some perfomance issue with reading from pipes...
> 
>  I can't believe that the ungzip is the main problem here, because
>  extracting data directly (via gzip commandline tool doesn't take that
>  long).


	- Eero