On 2012-03-05 Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> I find strange here that with a dictionary size even a bit bigger
> than with bare -8e the compressed file is a bit bigger.
This can sometimes happen, but it shouldn't be the common case. A bigger
dictionary might allow encoding some sections of the file bet
I played with lzma2 options and find two curious things.
First, start with something simple as reference (everything tested with
xz-5.0.3)
xz -vv -8e < coreutils-8.15.tar >/dev/null
xz: Filter
chain: --lzma2=dict=32MiB,lc=3,lp=0,pb=2,mode=normal,nice=273,mf=bt4,depth=5
12
xz: 370 MiB of memory is
