Package: rar Version: 1:3.8b3-1 Severity: wishlist
A 64 bit binary of rar was published on the rar site: http://rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-x64-3.8.0.tar.gz please use it instead of the 32 bit static one for the amd64 port. i've done some testing and there is a speedup dependent on the CPU type On my system (Atom 330, 64 bit) it gives a 10% advantage while compressing 236 MB of HTML files (the openjdk documentation): # time rar a -idq -m5 -s api32.rar /usr/share/doc/openjdk-6-jre/api real 2m32.908s user 2m30.750s sys 0m2.000s # time rar64 a -idq -m5 -s api64.rar /usr/share/doc/openjdk-6-jre/api real 2m18.543s user 2m16.140s sys 0m2.340s -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash rar depends on no packages. rar recommends no packages. Versions of packages rar suggests: ii unrar 1:3.8.2-1 Unarchiver for .rar files (non-fre -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
