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Re: .tar.xz for snapshots?

On 8/23/2013 12:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

On Aug 23 14:09, Christopher Faylor wrote:

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.


Doesn't xz also have a faster uncompression than bzip2?


Yup: http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks.html


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