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  1. Miscellaneous proposals
  2. 1. Directory compression.
  3. Gzip would be easier to work with than zlib; bzip2 would result in smaller
  4. data lengths. [Concretely, we're looking at about 10-15% space savings at
  5. the expense of 3-5x longer compression time for using bzip2.] Doing
  6. on-the-fly gzip requires zlib 1.2 or later; doing bzip2 requires bzlib.
  7. Pre-compressing status documents in multiple formats would force us to use
  8. more memory to hold them.