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Re: .tar.xz for snapshots?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:09:18 -0400
- Subject: Re: .tar.xz for snapshots?
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:00:58PM -0600, Keith Christian wrote:
>Perhaps we should test to see whether we want to trade compression for time.
The only time that the end-user has to worry about is download time +
uncompress time. I think that the win with xz compression outweighs any
increase in uncompress time.
cgf
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