Hi, [email protected] wrote:
> I did experiment with using 7z for gzip compression [...] > 0) 1132 packages (I used my apt cache): 1 076 539kB - 100% > 1) recompress the control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz: 1 038 391kB - 96.5% [...] > I used "7z a -tgzip -mx9 file.gz file". > My "recompress" scripts are very easy and cannot handle correctly all > situations so the result is not 100% precise. I wonder what 7z is doing to get this ~4.5% improvement. Could gzip learn an option to use the same trick? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110417202124.GA32237@elie
