Re: dist-xz compression level

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Pavel Sanda wrote:

> > isn't xz extremely sloooow with -9?
> > maybe it wasn't a bug, bit intentionally not used,
> > as that huge extra amount of time doesn't result in
> > that many bytes saved.
>
> Compared to the total time of make dist its IMHO
> acceptable. But configurability won't hurt of course.

Are you assuming 'make dist' after 'make' or 'make dist' from scratch?
Other than the time spent compressing data, 'make dist' after 'make' 
should be quite fast.

It may be that dimished returns become extreme as the compression 
level reaches -9.

Bob
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