From: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb online manuals
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:59:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0ac3e72-b0a0-5b6e-572f-314bebba4cd7@jguk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200921003812.GA4075@adacore.com>
On 21/09/2020 01:38, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Thank you for the tip.
>> Ok, I saw version 9 is documented here now:
>> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/index.html
>>
>>
>> I noticed "refcard" and "stack_frame" only have gz versions. refcard.pdf.gz is actually only 1000 bytes smaller compressed, maybe simpler just to show it as a PDF? At least it shows in the browser then.
>>
>> stack_frame.pdf.gz is 7000 bytes smaller. I'm sure the web-browser would download it via http compression anyway.
>
> I finally had some time to look at this today; as it turns out,
> it's just not refcard of stack_frame that don't compress well,
> it's all PDF files. I think the PDF being produced are already
> compressed, which explain why gzip doesn't provide much gains.
>
> Given the extra usability, I just changed the generation of the docs
> to not compress the pdf files (the rest stays the same, as in those
> other formats, it does make a difference).
>
Fantastic Joel, Thank you, Jonny
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-21 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-15 9:27 Jonny Grant
2020-07-15 18:39 ` Joel Brobecker
2020-07-22 22:28 ` Jonny Grant
2020-09-21 0:38 ` Joel Brobecker
2020-09-21 22:59 ` Jonny Grant [this message]
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