Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 06 March 2012 12:03:43 Jim Meyering wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 March 2012 04:57:27 Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz:
> >>   - xz decompresses more quickly
> > 
> > is that true ?  i thought last i looked, they were close, but gzip was
> > consistently slightly faster.  maybe if the bottleneck is more I/O than
> > CPU/memory, xz would win ?
> 
> Even back when the program was named lzma, it was always
> much more efficient at decompressing than *bzip2*:

sure, i agree completely that xz over bzip2 is a no brainer in pretty much 
every way possible :)
-mike

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