2 Title: Miscellaneous proposals
9 This document is for small proposal ideas that are about one paragraph in
10 length. From here, ideas can be rejected outright, expanded into full
11 proposals, or specified and implemented as-is.
15 1. Directory compression.
17 Gzip would be easier to work with than zlib; bzip2 would result in smaller
18 data lengths. [Concretely, we're looking at about 10-15% space savings at
19 the expense of 3-5x longer compression time for using bzip2.] Doing
20 on-the-fly gzip requires zlib 1.2 or later; doing bzip2 requires bzlib.
21 Pre-compressing status documents in multiple formats would force us to use
22 more memory to hold them.