On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 06:58:24PM -0700, Jake Hamby wrote: > I just did a quick performance test of bsdtar vs. gnutar, star, and Solaris > tar in extracting a large (704MB uncompressed) .tar.bz2 archive:
In the case of compressed files, especially bzip2, decompression time dominates. You should consider testing uncompressed files as well if you want to help isolate tar from bzip2. You could also determine whether each tar's decompress-and-unpack option is faster or slower than piping it the output of bzcat. And you definitely need to discard the first run, since some extra time is needed the first time to read the file into memory from media (or you need to use a file that's many times the size of memory, but that may be impossible). I'm not saying your results are wrong, but quick and dirty benchmark results can be misleading. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
