Re: Could distributed tarballs be compressed with xz instead of bzip2?

[Chong Yidong]

Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:

> 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:

I'll do that for Emacs 24.4.  Thanks for the suggestion.