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xz for the new release tip
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:28:57 +0200
- Subject: xz for the new release tip
Hi,
while currently the sources are release both as .tar.gz and as .tar.bz2 would
not it be worth to start using .xz as a replacement for the .bz2 variant?
13406892 bytes: gdb-6.8.91.20090930.tar.xz (xz -9)
xz -dc: real 0m1.226s user 0m1.190s sys 0m0.037s
18453837 bytes: gdb-6.8.91.20090930.tar.bz2
bzip2 -dc: real 0m3.775s user 0m3.755s sys 0m0.019s
Just a tip,
Jan