On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30/08/16 00:46, Jim Meyering wrote: >> The zstd compression tools are up and coming. This change teaches >> dircolors (and hence ls --color) about its suffixes. > > +1 > BTW, there is an updated just released about this format: > https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/
Thanks for the review and the added link. I'll add that to the commit message. The timing is not coincidental :-) I wonder if the much faster decompression speed of this format/tool will make it the new choice for deb/rpm payload compression. It gets within about 8% of xz/lzma for the size of the compressed result, yet decompression speed is 2-3 times faster.
