Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

2020-05-09 Thread Zac Medico
On 4/26/20 2:12 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 4/26/20 1:09 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:29 PM Michał Górny wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:55 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner --- Strawman patc

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

2020-04-27 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 18:23 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 4/26/20 3:25 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > Fuel for the fire: > > > * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html > > > * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

2020-04-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/26/20 3:25 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> Fuel for the fire: > >> * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html >> * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html > > Yep. That's why lzip is the dominant compression format now, and

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

2020-04-26 Thread Zac Medico
On 4/26/20 1:09 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:29 PM Michał Górny wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:55 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: >>> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108 >>> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner >>> --- >>> Strawman patch. Bikeshed away. >>> >> >> xz is generally slo

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

2020-04-26 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:29 PM Michał Górny wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:55 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108 > > Signed-off-by: Matt Turner > > --- > > Strawman patch. Bikeshed away. > > > > xz is generally slow and doesn't do parallel good. If we want t

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

2020-04-26 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 26-04-2020 21:29:42 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:55 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108 > > Signed-off-by: Matt Turner > > --- > > Strawman patch. Bikeshed away. > > > > xz is generally slow and doesn't do parallel good. If we want to ch

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

2020-04-26 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 09:55 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108 > Signed-off-by: Matt Turner > --- > Strawman patch. Bikeshed away. > xz is generally slow and doesn't do parallel good. If we want to change this, we should go for something cool like zstd that scales b

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

2020-04-26 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Fuel for the fire: > * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html > * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Yep. That's why lzip is the dominant compression format now, and nobody is using xz any more. SCNR, Ulrich signature

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

2020-04-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/26/20 12:55 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108 > Signed-off-by: Matt Turner > --- > Strawman patch. Bikeshed away. > Fuel for the fire: * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html * https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Change BINPKG_COMPRESS default from bzip2 to xz

2020-04-26 Thread Matt Turner
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715108 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner --- Strawman patch. Bikeshed away. bin/quickpkg | 2 +- lib/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/bin/quickpkg b/bin/quickpkg index df8c1a8