On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:08:23 +0200 Harald Arnesen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Adam Borowski [20/10/2018 22.54]: > > > Anything else has been obsoleted and should be deprecated: > > * gzip is venerable and had seen so much use in the past that it > > won't ever go away. But you shouldn't use it: it's speed is same > > as xz at level 2.5 but compression ratio is drastically worse. > > * bzip2 is drastically slower (esp. at decompression) than xz and > > zstd; it needs to die. > > * lzop had a good run but zstd is much stronger at same speed while > > lz4 is much faster. > > * lzip is a worse alternative to xz, peddled by a couple of trolls > > that send untruthful propaganda to projects, hoping people won't do > > research between accepting its use. Just say no and use xz. > > * ncompress is completely dead by now. > > * zip is used by Windows folks only, similar to gzip. > > * rar is unfree. > > * 7z is similar but incompatible to xz; also a container rather > > than a pure compressor. > > You forgot 'pack' :-) You forgot pigz lbzip2 pixz pxz, those are multicore, multithtread programs. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
