On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 07:20:12PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > my quick tests show that `bzip -9` produces the smallest file. it also takes 17 times as long as using gzip:
$ cp reproducible.json test.json
$ time bzip2 test.json
real 0m17.940s
user 0m17.824s
sys 0m0.092s
$ cp reproducible.json test.json
$ time gzip test.json
real 0m1.117s
user 0m1.012s
sys 0m0.100s
but, yeah 1207527 bytes for test.json.bz2, while 2130658 for test.json.gz…
so I guess that's pretty relevant here…
> +import bz2
> + (bz2.BZ2File, REPRODUCIBLE_JSON + '.bz2'),
that uses just one core, right?
and, as said on irc: please push the branch…
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cheers,
Holger
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