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Test results
nonthumb 48576 98132 37900
thumb... 40563 93107 29932
 
 
nled-2.52
 
Produced RPM: nled-2.52-6.fc12.armv5tel.rpm
 
Directories and files: 2 directories, 1 file
 
Binary File: usr/bin/nled
w/o Thumb
THUMB
THUMB2
THUMB / NON-THUMB
THUMB / THUMB2
 
RPM
20776
20204
20328
0.9724
0.9939
 
Directory
50892
43084
42684
0.8465
1.0093
 
Binary
38604
30796
30396
0.7977
1.0131
 
wget-1.11.4
 
Produced RPM: wget-1.11.4-5.fc12.armv5tel.rpm
 
Directories and files: 86 directories, 48 files
 
Binary File: usr/bin/wget
w/o Thumb
THUMB
THUMB2
THUMB / NON-THUMB
THUMB / THUMB2
 
RPM
422360
420788
419852
0.9962
1.0022
 
Directory
1863679
1811467
1810431
0.9719
1.0006
 
Binary
226464
174252
173216
0.7694
1.0060
 
httpd-2.2.13
 
Produced RPM: httpd-2.2.13-4.fc12.armv5tel.rpm
 
Directories and files: 37 directories, 334 files
 
Binary File: usr/sbin/httpd
w/o Thumb
THUMB
THUMB2
THUMB / NON-THUMB
THUMB / THUMB2
 
RPM
748180
738632
736500
0.9872
1.0029
 
Directory
2752985
2425373
2408025
0.8810
1.0072
 
Binary
287988
233660
229712
0.8113
1.0172
 
gimp-2.6.7
 
Produced RPM: gimp-2.6.7-2.fc12.armv5tel.rpm
 
Directories and files: 206 directories, 1204 files
 
Binary File 1: usr/bin/gimp-2.6
 
Binary File 2: usr/bin/gimp-console-2.6
w/o Thumb
THUMB
THUMB2
THUMB / NON-THUMB
THUMB / THUMB2
 
RPM
12423104
12431184
12350600
1.0006
1.0065
 
Directory
45780103
43891439
43730427
0.9587
1.0037
 
Binary 1
4284848
3450936
3371440
0.8054
1.0236
 
Binary 2
2131228
1688860
1656092
0.7924
1.0198
 
abiword-2.8.1
 
Produced RPM: libabiword-2.8.1-1.fc12.armv5tel.rpm
 
Directories and files: 39 directories, 617 files
 
Binary File: usr/lib/libabiword-2.8
w/o Thumb
THUMB
THUMB2
THUMB / NON-THUMB
THUMB / THUMB2
 
RPM
5561088
4779800
4742828
0.8595
1.0078
 
Directory
21295155
17055836
16987340
0.8009
1.0040
 
Binary
5806908
3450936
3371440
0.5943
1.0236
 
tar-1.22
 
Produced RPM: tar-1.22-8.fc12.armv5tel.rpm
 
Directories and files: 79 directories, 49 files
 
Binary File: bin/tar
w/o Thumb
THUMB
THUMB2
THUMB / NON-THUMB
THUMB / THUMB2
 
RPM
744340
742784
742180
0.9979
1.0008
 
Directory
2737195
2681159
2675975
0.9795
1.0019
 
Binary
251844
195808
190624
0.7775
1.0272
 
cpio-2.10
 
Produced RPM: cpio-2.10-5.fc12.armv5tel.rpm
 
Directories and files: 49 directories, 30 files
 
Binary File: bin/cpio
w/o Thumb
THUMB
THUMB / NON-THUMB
 
RPM
189908
189276
0.9967
 
Directory
842194
816194
0.9691
 
Binary
117064
91064
0.7779
 
gzip-1.3.12
 
Produced RPM: gzip-1.3.12-15.fc12.armv5tel.rpm
 
Directories and files: 9 directories, 33 files
 
Binary File: bin/gzip
w/o Thumb
THUMB
THUMB / NON-THUMB
 
RPM
116560
115736
0.9929
 
Directory
263922
252086
0.9551
 
Binary
61708
49872
0.8082
 
bzip2-1.0.5
 
Produced RPM: bzip2-1.0.5-6.fc12.armv5tel.rpm
 
Directories and files: 7 directories, 21 files
 
Binary File: /usr/bin/bzip2
w/o Thumb
THUMB
THUMB / NON-THUMB
 
RPM
49476
49232
0.9951
 
Directory
109233
103449
0.9470
 
Binary
33024
28076
0.8502
 
In average, THUMB reduced the sizes about
 
2.24% for *.rpm files,
 
7.67% for extracted directories, and
 
22.16% for executables, compared to NON-THUMB.
 
While it might save some disk space for executable files, it doesn't make a big different for rpm packages since rpm has it's own compressing mechanism.
In average, THUMB produced files that are about
0.24% for *.rpm files,
 
0.45% for extracted directories, and
 
1.86% for executables, greater than THUMB2.
 
I noticed that THUMB produces files that are almost as small as THUMB2's products.
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