Re: [PATCH] maintainer-scripts/gcc_release: compress xz in parallel

[Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@arm.com>]

Sam James via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
>> On 8 Nov 2022, at 07:14, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 1. This should speed up decompression for folks, as parallel xz
>>   creates a different archive which can be decompressed in parallel.
>> 
>>   Note that this different method is enabled by default in a new
>>   xz release coming shortly anyway (>= 5.3.3_alpha1).
>> 
>>   I build GCC regularly from the weekly snapshots
>>   and so the decompression time adds up.
>> 
>> 2. It should speed up compression on the webserver a bit.
>> 
>>   Note that -T0 won't be the default in the new xz release,
>>   only the parallel compression mode (which enables parallel
>>   decompression).
>> 
>>   -T0 detects the number of cores available.
>> 
>>   So, if a different number of threads is preferred, it's fine
>>   to set e.g. -T2, etc.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
>> ---
>> maintainer-scripts/gcc_release | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> 
>
> Given no disagreements, anyone fancy pushing
> this in time for Sunday evening for the next 13
> snapshot? ;)

I didn't see an explicit ACK or NACK, but it looks good to me.  I'll push
tomorrow if there are no objections before then.

Thanks,
Richard