On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:24:46 +0200, arne wrote in message <20181020232446.231bf6f5@ryzen>:
> 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. ...and rzip and lrzip... ;oD -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
