On Sun, 11 May 2014 19:46:50 +0200 Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rationale: xz-utils is quite widespread nowadays and it is a part > of @system set. It can achieve better compression ratio than bzip2, > and faster decompression at the same time. Some thoughts: What about putting multiple doc / man / info files in a single .xz file for each package? Would that further improve the situation? (As they can share dictionary, instead of having multiple dictionaries) Some algorithms tend to work better for smaller files, whereas others work better for larger files; might this be the case for bzip2 vs. xz? -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : [email protected] GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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