Bug#497038: lzop indeed would speed things up

2011-11-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Sami Liedes slie...@cc.hut.fi, 2011-07-02, 14:39: I believe merely using lzop could give a 2-4x speedup: $ time gzip -d ftp.fi.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_Contents-amd64.gz /dev/null real0m1.608s user0m1.584s sys

Bug#497038: lzop indeed would speed things up

2011-07-02 Thread Sami Liedes
I have two ftp.$LANG_CODE.debian.org unstable mirrors in my /etc/apt/sources.list, because sometimes one of them might be down or out-of-date. Doing an apt-file search aoeui on my fast (modern 8-core Sandy Bridge) computer takes around 4 seconds. Almost all of this time is spent gunzipping the