Weird behaviour

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:39:43PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> On an XO-1.75 using null-fsdisk, the fs-update reduced from 5:05 to
> 4:36, which shows that most of the time cost is the decompression.  The
> same file read in without decompression [2] cost 1:26.

That result was using a different method to what fs-update uses, so I
redid the test with the same method [1].  The result was 27 seconds.

References:
1.  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lesson_23#read_a_.zd_file

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James Cameron
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