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Re: xz for the new release tip
- From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:19:12 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: xz for the new release tip
- References: <20090930202857.GA32600@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:28:57 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
> 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
Never heard of it, so my guess it isn't used widely enough yet to make
sense.