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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs?
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120126203148.GA30390@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-26 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-26 20:22 Jim Meyering
2012-01-26 20:32 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2012-01-26 21:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-26 22:15     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-26 23:10       ` Samuel Bronson
2012-01-27  1:49       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27  9:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-27  5:02       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-27  9:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30 19:08         ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-27  1:48     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27  9:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-27 18:41         ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-28  8:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-28 23:08             ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-29  3:55               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30  6:26                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-30 17:49                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-30 19:54               ` Stan Shebs
2012-01-30 20:53                 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-30 21:06                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27  2:37     ` Ralf Corsepius
2012-01-27  9:26   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-27 20:27     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-27 20:30       ` Marek Polacek

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