[PATCH] src-release.sh: Use -T0 for xz compression

Mark Wielaard mark@klomp.org
Thu May 30 21:43:31 GMT 2024


Use parallel compression to create the xz archive.

On my machine (using 4 cores) this reduces the time to create
binutils-2.42.50.tar.xz from 1 minute 40 seconds to 56 seconds.

xz has supported -T0 since version 5.2.0 (released 2014-12-21).
---
 src-release.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src-release.sh b/src-release.sh
index e454893298da..f29362aac207 100755
--- a/src-release.sh
+++ b/src-release.sh
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ do_xz()
     ver=$2
     echo "==> Xzipping $package-$ver.tar.xz"
     rm -f $package-$ver.tar.xz
-    $XZPROG -k -v -9 $package-$ver.tar
+    $XZPROG -k -v -9 -T0 $package-$ver.tar
 }
 
 # Compress the output with zstd
-- 
2.45.1



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