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Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2?
From: |
Ulrich Mueller |
Subject: |
Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2? |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:46:36 +0100 |
It would be considerably smaller (sizes are for "bzip2 -9" and "xz -6"
which is the default):
51056640 emacs-24.0.92.tar.gz
41410560 emacs-24.0.92.tar.bz2
34443264 emacs-24.0.92.tar.xz
Also xz can be uncompressed much faster:
$ time bunzip2 emacs-24.0.92.tar.bz2
real 0m11.840s
user 0m10.393s
sys 0m0.423s
$ time unxz emacs-24.0.92.tar.xz
real 0m4.251s
user 0m3.833s
sys 0m0.412s
- Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2?,
Ulrich Mueller <=