Python documentation available as ZIP files
Fred L. Drake
fdrake at cnri.reston.va.us
Fri Jul 23 13:47:09 EDT 1999
Gordon McMillan writes:
> Nah, it's because a zip file is (conceptually) a tar of a bunch of
> gzips, while a tgz is a gzip of a tar. Compression ratios get better
> on longer inputs. But "random" access is a lot easier on the former.
Gordon,
Good point; with the larger files (PDF & PostScript), the files
would be large enough that the difference is trivial, but with lots of
small files, the compression tables have to be rebuilt for each file.
This makes a lot of sense.
-Fred
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