Re: [OE-core] [PATCH V2] archiver: Configurable tarball compression

2021-10-27 Thread Martyn Welch
> > So, here the claim that zstd (with default options) is almost as good as > xz in compressed size is not confirmed. However, zstd is a clear winner > in terms of compression speed, and anyway better than gzip. This is > worth switching. > That claim doesn't seem to be confirmed with any of

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH V2] archiver: Configurable tarball compression

2021-09-24 Thread Khem Raj
On 9/20/21 3:25 AM, Ian Ray wrote: In order to be more efficient, we use xz as compression method to create GPL sources archives. Signed-off-by: Fabien Lahoudere [V1 was https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/155985/] [Rebased] xz has its own mind when it comes to parallel threads, how

[OE-core] [PATCH V2] archiver: Configurable tarball compression

2021-09-24 Thread Ian Ray
In order to be more efficient, we use xz as compression method to create GPL sources archives. Signed-off-by: Fabien Lahoudere [V1 was https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/155985/] [Rebased] Signed-off-by: Ian Ray --- meta/classes/archiver.bbclass | 8 +--- 1 file changed, 5

Re: EXT: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH V2] archiver: Configurable tarball compression

2021-09-22 Thread Ian Ray
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 03:48:29PM +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > > On 9/21/21 3:20 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > > By the way, zstd seems to be marginally worse (+1%) than xz in terms of > > compressed size, but is orders of magnitude faster (see > >

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH V2] archiver: Configurable tarball compression

2021-09-21 Thread Michael Opdenacker
On 9/21/21 3:20 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > By the way, zstd seems to be marginally worse (+1%) than xz in terms of > compressed size, but is orders of magnitude faster (see > https://archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/). Actually, this article only

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH V2] archiver: Configurable tarball compression

2021-09-21 Thread Michael Opdenacker
On 9/21/21 2:18 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 09:15 +0300, Ian Ray wrote: >> In order to be more efficient, we use xz as compression method >> to create GPL sources archives. >> >> Signed-off-by: Fabien Lahoudere >> [V1 was https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/155985/] >>

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH V2] archiver: Configurable tarball compression

2021-09-21 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 09:15 +0300, Ian Ray wrote: > In order to be more efficient, we use xz as compression method > to create GPL sources archives. > > Signed-off-by: Fabien Lahoudere > [V1 was https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/155985/] > [Rebased] > Signed-off-by: Ian Ray > --- >

[OE-core] [PATCH V2] archiver: Configurable tarball compression

2021-09-21 Thread Ian Ray
In order to be more efficient, we use xz as compression method to create GPL sources archives. Signed-off-by: Fabien Lahoudere [V1 was https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/155985/] [Rebased] Signed-off-by: Ian Ray --- meta/classes/archiver.bbclass | 8 +--- 1 file changed, 5