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

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