Compressing SimpleLibrary with GZIP

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/03/2012 21:14, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> :
> Yes, I noticed that option. It has no effects on my large multimodule
> tests which have hundreds of modules, metadata dominates there. For the
> reference, this is the library with "just" 500 modules, and 1 simple
> class per module:
>
> $ du -sk library-c500-d500*
>    1266020	library-c500-d500.BASELINE
>    107152	library-c500-d500.GZIP
>
> How about that!
>
> Is SimpleLibrary considered to be prototype? If so, then enabling
> compression aids me to do more experiments with it, when I don't have to
> burn my disks reading and writing gigabytes of metadata. Yes, I've been
> considering using squashfs to fit all these libraries on my machine, but
> it seems less appealing than changing a few lines in Jigsaw code.
Sorry you're running into the issue with size of the meta data, that 
does need to be fixed, hopefully over the next few months. I wouldn't 
object to compressing the config file in the short term. As regards 
SimpleLibrary then it will likely evolve, maybe in the future there will 
be other Library implementations too.

-Alan