On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:05 PM, William Blevins <[email protected]> wrote: > That link also contains a "tar.gz" extension file which is 433 kB.
tar.gz achieves better compression, because the index of data chunks is build for the single lump of files glued together. In .zip archive index is build independently for each file, so even if you have dozen identical files, they all will be compressed separately. But thanks to that, .zip allows a random access to archived files, while tar.gz does not. _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
