[arch-general] About Arch pkg compress format

[Xavier]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
>
> That's actually not entirely true. Dan and I investigated this. The
> previous low memory issues were caused by the entire install system
> never leaving the initramfs, and remaining entirely in RAM - which
> soaked far more than pacman ever will. Additionally, with the dynamic
> package patch (dunno if this is in the master branch yet), memory
> usage sank by leaps and bounds.

Yes it is, go go Dan :)
http://toofishes.net/blog/valgrind-330-and-new-massif/