[buug] Gentoo, Bluecurve and Linux too!
Nick Moffitt
nick at zork.net
Fri Oct 18 18:44:19 PDT 2002
begin Rick Moen Lives Three Hours from Nowhere quotation:
> I had assumed that it was small relative to, say, downloading binary
> ISOs (since my a-priori assumption is that all you pull down is
> source tarballs as required and occasional updates to whatever is
> like the BSD ports skeleton) -- but I infer that for whatever reason
> it's a bandwidth hog.
So it's generally true that source code is a less efficient
storage format for code than compiled binaries. Source code often
also contains code segments for each platform, of which only one
segment will be included.
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A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
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