> (xz is 85% of bz2 size)
> (xz is 70% of bz2 size)
> (xz is 57% of bz2 size)
> 
> So I think we could save ourselves and our mirror providers, CDN, and users 
> some disk space and bandwidth by switching to xz. bz2 was the best available 
> built-in compression on Mac OS X 10.6 when we started doing binary archives 
> but there are better options now.

I agree wholeheartedly, but since you mention modern compression algorithms, 
isn’t there another one (or more) which would be yet more efficient than xz?

Vincent

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