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Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:31:48 +0100
- Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
- References: <87mx9a1ag4.fsf@rho.meyering.net>
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:21:47 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> With xz -9e, that would have been 25% smaller,
> at 15282412 bytes (contrast w/20614020 for .bz2).
> The .xz tarball would have uncompressed more quickly, too.
+1
That slow bzip2 decompression is a continuous pain during packaging, staring
at bzip2 -dc on each gdb.spec debugging cycle.
bzip2 -dc = 0m3.641s -> xz -dc = 0m1.264s
Previous proposal by me:
xz for the new release tip
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-09/msg00341.html
Thanks,
Jan